What if you just decided to step into a life of courageous living?
I wish there was a bigger mic-drop to add to that, but there really isn’t.
That’s the thing.
What if you stopped worrying about how things would come out of you, how things would appear to others, what you would even say… and just do it?
If you just poured all of your heart out onto the page and just let it be what it was. How would life be different for you?
Because here’s the thing – we artists get so tied up sometimes in trying to do it “right” that we end up not doing it at all. OR we come out with something small, something edited, and then we wonder why it feels flat, why it doesn’t land with people, why our heart isn’t in the creation of it.
Did God create you for a self-edited life?
Listen, before you mishear what I’m saying – I’m not saying that we should live by our whims and allow our current emotions to whisk us away without any thought to discernment, self-control, or dying to self.
OF COURSE that is part of the Christian life.
But as for art?
As for co-creating with God?
As for using our talents to worship Him and bless others?
Where are you editing yourself down in order to fit a self-imposed mold? Because the more you fit yourself into that mold, the more you’re going to have to lop of pieces of yourself that are important. And the more you do that, the less recognizable you will become. You’ll wake up one day and believe that this new version is who you are, or at least who you have to be, and then you’ll wonder why you feel so empty.
What if–instead–you stepped out on faith?
What if you exited the mold and dug into who God CREATED you to be? Glued all the broken pieces of you back on, into a beautiful mosaic of depth and experience, and walked out into the sunlight to glitter? To show the world who God is and how His goodness and faithfulness can transform an old life into new?
What if?