Painter and visual artist Chuck Close on inspiration: “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt […]
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“Everything is going wrong for Israel. They have no army, they have no wealth, they have no freedom, they have no power, and they have no prophets, no priests, and no kings. What do they have? They have a Book. Nobody else ever had a book like this Book. This Book told them there is […]
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Knowing all this-that prayer is dangerous, that it moves our language into potencies we are unaccustomed to and unprepared for it continually puzzles me that so much prayer sounds so limp, that prayer is often so utterly banal. The limpness and banality may be no more common in pastors than in laypeople, but they are […]
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If you cant fly then run, if you cant run then walk, if you ant walk then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. MLK
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