http://free2shine.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/identity-multitasking/ Waiting, cocooned and hidden...fluttering free, beautiful...rhythms of life. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://free2shine.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/identity-multitasking/#comment-156 Hamameliss Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:47:11 +0000 http://free2shine.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/identity-multitasking/#comment-156 I wonder if part of the issue lies in not trusting yourself to be right. And because you are thinking of the pieces as having to always go together the same way. Recently, a friend commented on how I paint. I tend to get an idea and go ahead and start at it, and if as it evolves I don't like what it looks like, I just roll with the punches and kind of adapt my idea as I go along. I think some of it is I don't trust my original vision of the art piece nor my ability to actually accomplish what I originally saw, but all that does not invalidate that what I create in the end is not beautiful. I think in the end interpreting Scripture is kind of like how I paint, you start somewhere, but that may not be where you end up and you have to trust yourself and God enough to go for it sometimes, even if you don't know if it will be beautiful in the end and you don't know if a particular piece really fits with another piece. I wonder if part of the issue lies in not trusting yourself to be right. And because you are thinking of the pieces as having to always go together the same way. Recently, a friend commented on how I paint. I tend to get an idea and go ahead and start at it, and if as it evolves I don’t like what it looks like, I just roll with the punches and kind of adapt my idea as I go along. I think some of it is I don’t trust my original vision of the art piece nor my ability to actually accomplish what I originally saw, but all that does not invalidate that what I create in the end is not beautiful. I think in the end interpreting Scripture is kind of like how I paint, you start somewhere, but that may not be where you end up and you have to trust yourself and God enough to go for it sometimes, even if you don’t know if it will be beautiful in the end and you don’t know if a particular piece really fits with another piece.

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