If you feel something calling you to dance, or write, or paint, or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it.
03979 – Don’t Worry. Just Do It!
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03538 – What’s Easier?
It is easier to preach and to write about prayer than it is to pray. It is easier to talk about Jesus than to talk to Him. from The Table of Inwardness
02983 – Exercise Your Gifts
While cruelty is in power, do what Mozart did. Exercise your gifts. Create beautiful things. Wolfgang stayed clear of emperors and did his work, and he lives on today; and the emperors are just moldy names on marble slabs covered with pigeon droppings. If you can’t...
02612 – The Middle: Crucial Part of the Story
When we tell stories that start with a sudden beginning and jump to an ending that only God could write, we skip over a crucial part of the story: the middle. The place where we wait. Where we sit in silence. Where we have no answers. Where our hearts ache and we...
02507 – Think Well, Write Well
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
02282 – Just Do It!
If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it.
01977 – Love will Return in Another Way
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet...
01927 – The Illiterate of the 21st Century
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
01808 – The Gospel is Not Just in the Bible Alone
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
01613 – Writing Our Own Eulogy
We write our own eulogy not by how we die, but how we live.