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It Is Not Necessary To Have An Extravagant Food Budget In Order To Serve Things With Variety And Tastefully Cooked. It Is Not Necessary To Have Expensive Food On The Plates Before They Can Enter The Dining Room As Things Of Beauty In Colour And Texture. Food Should Be Served With Real Care As To The Colour And Texture On The Plates, As Well As With Imaginative Taste. This Is Where Artistic Talent And Aesthetic Expression And Fulfillment Come In.

A Christian, Who Realizes He Has Been Made In The Image Of The Creator God And Is Therefore Meant To Be Creative On A Finite Level, Should Certainly Have More Understanding Of His Responsibility To Treat God's Creation With Sensitivity, And Should Develop His Talents To Do Something To Beautify His Little Spot On The Earth's Surface.

Our Personal Afflictions Involve The Living God; The Only Way In Which Satan Can Persecute Or Afflict God Is Through Attacking The People Of God. The Only Way We Can Have Personal Victory In The Midst Of These Flying Arrows Raining Down On Us Is To Call Upon The Lord For Help. It Is His Strength, Supplied To Us In Our Weakness, That Makes Victory After Victory Possible.

All Art Involves Conscious Discipline. If One Is Going To Paint, Do Sculpture, Design A Building Or Write A Book, It Will Involve Discipline In Time And Energy — Or There Would Never Be Any Production At All To Be Seen, Felt Or Enjoyed By Ourselves Or Others. To Develop ‘hidden Art’ Will Also, Of Course, Take Time And Energy – And The Balance Of The Use Of Time Is A Constant Individual Problem For All Of Us: What To Do, And What To Leave Undone. One Is Always Having To Neglect One Thing In Order To Give Precedence To Something Else. The Question Is One Of Priorities

There Is No Occasion When Meals Should Become Totally Unimportant. Meals Can Be Very Small Indeed, Very Inexpensive, Short Times Taken In The Midst Of A Big Push Of Work, But They Should Be Always More Than Just Food.