by Mandy Thompson | Jun 5, 2012 | creativity and art, for reflection, PRAY, spiritual practice
It’s 7:14am. I’ve just poured my coffee, spilled it all over our unfortunately-white countertops. My sleepy hands carry the mug to the breakfast nook in our kitchen. The orangy summer sun is beaming on the east side of the trees. The birds are chirping....
by Mandy Thompson | May 29, 2012 | creativity and art, PRAY
“I’ve heard several editors say they make a practice of chopping off the concluding two to three paragraphs in Christian writing, not because the writing isn’t good, but because this is when Christians consistently shift into autopilot optimism. They present the...
by Mandy Thompson | May 22, 2012 | for reflection, PRAY
“It’s not brave to have answers. It’s brave to watch them get erased, obliterated, rubbed out with a half-chewed cheap eraser on the end of a #2 pencil, the kind that leaves black nasty smudges in the wake of that math formula that should have contained, as...
by Mandy Thompson | May 15, 2012 | creativity and art, life of worship, PRAY
I’m frozen in time. Actually, frozen on my couch somewhere between working on a series of paintings and climbing on my elliptical. I was thinking about inertia—that stuff smart people say when they’re explaining that an object in motion stays in motion,...
by Mandy Thompson | May 8, 2012 | creativity and art, for reflection, PRAY
“As you make art or write, the process is a container for awareness. Everything that rises up—judgments, blocks, insights—is a reflection of the whole of your life.” Christine Valters Paintner in The Artist’s Rule I sat in the corner of my kitchen...
