Because if I don't post now, I never will...

5 days and counting until the drawing must be done. So this week will afford me no time to blog, and I'll just pass along some notes I jotted down during church tonight.

Imagine you had a great idea for a revolutionary new gadget. You think it, you plan it, you discuss it. Then, one lazy night while watching TV at midnight, you see your gadget selling out on QVC. Later, you go online and see it selling like hotcakes on various sites. Hearing news reports of the phenomenal success of this item and the millions made by the creator, a feeling rises up within you.

Is it rage, or pride?

"Creativity is judicious immitation."
Go to a modern art museum. Have a docent explain the artwork, the concept behind it and how the artist executed it. I guarantee you, you will say, "I could've done/thought of that." Yeah...but you didn't. Now, as an artist, time and time again, I come up with some extraordinary idea for a project...and then read a book or go to an exhibit only to find it's already been done (incidentally, it's all been done). There are 2 option at that point: rage, frustration, envy, jealousy; OR pride, encouragement, confirmation. Are you mad when someone beats you to the punch, or happy that at least you wer punching at the right target? Recently I've been delighted to hear that others have already thought what I've been thinking. I feel like a freakin' genius. I made a comment on prayer, and a friend told me CS Lewis said the exact same thing in his book, "Miracles." I posted here about the falacy of infinite choice being equal to freedom, and then was directed, within the last week, to a book called, "The Paradox of Choice," written on the same topic. And most recently, my thoughts--formed in isolation with sociological observation, of a sort--on church (particularly owning a building, facets of ministry, service, community) were confirmed by a pastor and his reference to similar conclusions being reached by pastoral leadership all over. I don't want to get cocky, but how cool to observe, think, pray and discover on my own, and then find out I'm not on my own. It is evidence of a rebirth of thought, desire, insight, influence, growth..and dare I say a return to ministry...which has been occuring in my life recently. My prayer is that Jesus would continue to reach into my life and grant me wisdom (James 1:5) and through wisdom, "the knowledge of witty inventions" (Proverbs 8:12, KJV).

Ma la hoo

MA LA HI

And now...Deep Thoughts

This post is for anyone out there wondering what I have been thinking lately.
Lots.
But as it is still a jumbled mess in my head, I will not try to lay everything out just yet.
Just know that school has resumed, I am busy, frequently tired, my teeth are tingling, I'm lying on the floor of my office, my eyeballs hurt...and all of this somehow adds up to an as-yet-incomplete skull sitting out in my studio.

Thanks for keeping track of me.