Does God care about our creative work? Does He really care about our writing or painting or sculpting? Can I go to Him for inspiration?
What about our identity as the crown of creation, as gardeners of logoi, as priests? How do we recover it? How can we see again?
Creating just doesn’t happen. We are endowed with capacities that many of us are not even aware of. We are created to see and create.
The Way of Christ, and the life of the Christian, is the true Art of letting go. It is a life of surrender to Christ.
In a world obsessed with complexity, complexity theory, and ‘global issues’, there is a simple life, a simple Way that opens to all of us.
Confessional writing is the opening of the soul to God and others through prose. In this post we consider examples of confessional writing for inspiration.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn shows us how to take our creative vocations seriously in the face of many distractions, set backs, and the unflagging pressures of time.
Sometimes we get down by how little we‘ve produced. But instead of trying to produce more, we can take time and be still and pray.
Before we begin any creative task we must centre our hearts and attention–to know the true task and Whom we are doing it for.
The Divine Liturgy is an encounter with God, and thus Beauty Himself. We encounter God to know who we are–we are worshipping beings of God.
Father Antony Paul