Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” – Lk 17:19 Last week, I shared one of my favorite posts of all time, “Writing into the Light.” (Link here: micksilva.com/writing-into-the-light) That post has long served to remind me of why I do this, why I fight to write in the light, day in day out. And
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“[Art] is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art? Art, like faith, requires nothing so much as imagination. Yet as a Christian and as an artist, I tend to get so crumpled up by
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“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird Navel-gazing is one thing. A “colo-rectal theology” puts
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There’s no other goal. And yet, so often, it feels like the only thing I can’t manage to do. So I’m constantly searching for help. It’s a perk of running a site for writers as long as I have—I get the direct benefit. All the great insights and stories of writers struggling just like all of us, people you’d think
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Being real isn’t easy. It isn’t commonly practiced. It isn’t valued. Yet some folks have the idea that it’s becoming too common and we need to be careful about being transparent. They don’t agree we should promote more honesty and openness. Make no mistake, there is a battlefield over vulnerability. “…but once you are real you can’t become unreal again.
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