As an artist, we take our life experiences, art experiences, training, and imagination everywhere we go. Anything & everything can be inspiration for our art. Sketch books, napkins, digital collections fill up with promising concepts for future work! Making art becomes a basic need for existing. However, there can be seasons in our life where we are not creating. It happens: jobs, family, responsibility, emotional burnout... LIFE! I've heard it said that it is like riding a bike. You just get back on & go. I don't really feel that is true. It is very easy to slip into bad habits, struggles to concentrate, and get easily frustrated when we're out of the artistic habit of creating. I picture the artist like a stagnant pond. It has all the makings for life & vibrancy, but without input or output...it becomes unhealthy! It will take a little bit of time getting yourself back into the swing of things, but if we continue with discipline & hard work will once again allow you to see the fruit of your labor.
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7
Our walk with God is the same way. Life can sometimes get in the way, and we find ourselves not reading our Bible, not spending time in prayer, lacking fellowship with believers, and forget about any kind of discipleship/mentoring going on. When this happens, we come stagnant....disconnected....out of touch with The Giver of Life! Our life no longer reflects one passionately seeking after God. We stop seeing some of the exciting God things that use to be apart of our daily walk with Him. He has never left & He is still there in your life, but you aren't seeing fruit. Yes, we can confess our sin(which really it is...putting other things before God), and ask for God to help us keep Him first in all things. But you have to play a part in this! Getting back into the Word, praying, and spending time with brothers and sisters in Christ(we're all hypocrites and slackers....they will welcome you back! Haha). You will begin to see God's hand at work in your life, you will know He is with you(and never left you in the first place).....and the fruit will grow once more!
Receiving Christ is where it STARTS....but we must be ROOTED in Him....and continue on! Continuing on is not stagnant...it is active & moving! Just like our faith (and art) should be!
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