Having recently completed THIS E-COURSE I wanted to connect with where the seeds were planted. Kelly Rae Roberts, the instructor of this course made a seemingly odd statement: her journey began when she completed running a marathon.
It got me to thinking: mine started the first class I took in seminary. We were all required to take a spiritual disciplines course. The instructor’s assignment was to practice a spiritual discipline for 30 days. Usually when I think of spiritual practices, things like prayer, singing, reading the bible, fasting come to mind. What came to my mind: make something creative for 30 days. This was back in 2003. Fuller seminary did not offer degrees yet for incorporating art and spirituality (that has since changed). I still had not thought of myself as a artistic person.
Some things I wished I would have taken seriously…
I misplaced BOTH THE ART PIECES AND THE JOURNAL THAT ACCOMPANIED IT. But that is where art began to take on a different space in my life…