It Is Not A Waste To Write

If You Have Been Afraid That Your Love Of Beautiful Flowers And The Flickering Flame Of The Candle Is Somehow Less Spiritual Than Living In Starkness And Ugliness, Remember That He Who Created You To Be Creative Gave You The Things With Which To Make Beauty And The Sensitivity To Appreciate And Respond To His Creation.

Human Beings Are Very Unbalanced And Prone To Go Off On Tangents. In Every Area Of Life- With Too Great Emphasis On One Thing, Leaving Out Another Important Thing Altogether. None Of Us Will Ever Be Perfectly Balanced In Our Spiritual Lives, Our Intellectual Lives, Our Emotional Lives, Our Family Lives, In Relationships With Other Human Beings, Or In Our Business Lives. But We Are Challenged To Try, With The Help Of God. We Are Meant To Live In The Scriptures.

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

The Thing About Real Life Is That Important Events Don't Announce Themselves... Usually Something That Is Going To Change Your Whole Life Is A Memory Before You Can Stop And Be Impressed About It.

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.