As I began to get back into my art, my creativity, I spent a couple of days with a famous contemporary artist who urged me to trust myself, trust my work. What a difficult thing to do. But it’s something I am working on. She urged me to trust God and what He is doing in me through my art.

What a concept.

That’s not always easy in something as simple as art, and not easy at all in something as complex as life. But in some ways I feel like I am learning to trust Him more since I have delved back into my art. Maybe it’s because I’ve felt Him pulling me back to painting over and over again as I look back across the events of my life. Seems like recently things have fallen into place for it to finally happen. However, things have also happened since I’ve started earnestly pursuing my art to make it even more difficult to occur.

 Which makes me want to fight for it even more.

"God, I will take care of the quantity. You take care of the quality."   Paraphrase of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron