Re: Insensitivity and sensitivity(see the sense?)

["Mitchell P. Warner" <indepth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You said:  > i thought artists were supposed to be sensitive>

SENSITIVE is the 'excuse' that many use to live lives filled with disasters
of their own making.  I disavow that lifestyle.


I accept that this creative impulse within me is God’s creative pulse itself.

My position as an artist is humble. I am essentially a channel. 



An Artists Prayer:

O Great Creator,
I come to You in Your Name, that I may be of greater service to You, and to
my fellows. 
	I offer myself to You as an instrument. 
	I open myself to Your Creativity in my life.
	I surrender to You my old ideas.
	I welcome Your new and more expansive Ideas.
	I trust that You will lead me.
	I know that it is safe to follow You. 
	I know You Created me and that Creativity 
	Is Your nature and my own. 
	I ask You to unfold my life
	According to Your plan, not my low self-worth.

	
	By you and through each other, and made whole. 
	Help me to love other artists,
	To nurture each artist’s  unfolding,
	to encourage each other’s growth,
	And understand each other’s fears.
	Help me to create as an act of worship to You.


As an artist I am sober, sane, solvent, responsible, user-friendly,
faithful, loving, kind, gentle and happy. 

	I do not believe that the material universe needs turn on an axis of
suffering; surely the beauty of the world rests on pure joy.
Light and film reveal this truth.

	I am a channel for God’s creativity and my work comes to good.  
	As "I" create and listen, I will be led. 
	Creativity is the Creator’s will for me.  
	My creativity heals myself and others. 
	I am allowed to nurture my artistry. 
	Through the use of my creativity I serve God. 
	His creativity always leads me to truth, love and forgiveness.
	There is a divine plan of goodness for mankind.

Undoubtedly I become the essence of what I envisage.

I choose to look for, see and photograph the beauty of His creation.

mpw