In my sermon “What if Everything is Silent?” I mentioned finding an awesome coffee shop in a small town in west Texas. Once a month, they offered an open painting time, each with a theme, upstairs in an art studio. This was a great outlet for me to create and now, I have three paintings that mark the growth I experienced. Listen to the sermon online.
On Sunday, Jared asked the congregation to share what makes praying hard? When you try to pray, what obstacles do you meet? Here are some of those comments.
I write because it is my need as a human being to create. I write for the same reason I do wood working or paint pictures or write music. It is in our nature to create, to model God in a way. Because putting one word in front of another is the simplest way I can think of to create my own world, my own universe. It my way of speaking to the universe and the best way for the universe to understand what I’m saying. I write because I have to, because I wouldn’t know what to do with a life without it.