"World's longest suspension bridge, in Hyogo" by Aurelio.Asiain
A new friend asked me this the other day, and I said, “Preach with the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other.” (Citation) The beauty is I don’t have to pull ideas out of my head. The stories in the paper aren’t up to me, and the principles in scripture aren’t up to me. I don’t have to make stuff up. I just have to pay attention. My job is to notice the connections and the disconnects. The same art lives in my favorite comedians and writers. They spot the gap between the is and the ought. Then they build a bridge for the rest of us. I don’t know enough about musicians and painters to say if it’s true of all creatives, but I wonder if it might be.
Unless you’re a sociopath, you know something of ethics and beauty. If you didn’t understand something of the laws that under-gird life, you wouldn’t have made it this far. Obviously, I find truth in scripture, but even scripture says there is more to truth than scripture. So take the truth you’ve received, and then…
Listen.
Watch.
Pay attention.
What separates the creatives from the crowd is they don’t numb out.
