Word Thou Art

 Many people are afraid to write about their faith because they think it will make them irrelevant. Because Jesus is  "cliche" or out of fashion. I myself have written books without God or Jesus in them, and that was because I thought it was easier to write them. The truth is, it is sooo much more simple to write books without God in them. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't put God in your books.      I find that most of the time, whenever I add God, or Jesus to my books, they gain so much more depth and emotion, bringing the story to life. For me, I have the hardest time actually doing this. I have to continually pause and think to myself, "Is this the right image to portray of God?"     As Christians, we are called to a higher purpose and we know by the Holy Spirit what is right and wrong. Not to mention the Bible guides our choices as well. So whenever we put God into our stories, it will definitely get harder. It's not meant to be easy to share yo...

      If you're like me, you get discouraged very very easily. It might not be over the same things, but we get discouraged in a way that makes us get angry, and then we want to quit.      I can't tell you how many times I've been there. Recently I've been trying to draw more humans, and to be completely honest, without a reference, I am absolutely terrible. I want to quit after redrawing the same messy sketch about ten to twenty times. Sometimes I try so hard that when I get upset, it's about an hour after I started, and then, after erasing for what feels like the hundredth time, I still have a blank, somewhat smudged, piece of paper in front of me.      So you might be wondering, how on earth is that an easy give up? You tried twenty times before getting frustrated! Well, the truth is, I've been practicing, a lot. When you practice drawing a lot and sketch so much that you know how to draw certain things without a reference at all, you...

     All my life I've been told that I am a great artist or a great writer, but I've also been told that in order to utilize these talents, I need to use them for God.      I have gone through several periods of time where I've wondered how exactly to use my talents to glorify God when I really want to draw and write things that are fun, relative to this time, and something that I actually enjoy! Sometimes I think to myself, "Man, I wish I could figure out how to incorporate my faith into what I draw, and write."     But the truth is I can! And so can you. No matter how overwhelming this life can get, and how weird it might seem to include God into the simple things that we do, it needs to be done. To be a light unto the world around us, we need to make sure that we ourselves are conducting ourselves in a way that pleases God in all that we do! This might sound cliche, or incredibly hard, and I don't deny that at times, we might feel like giv...