tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post8144463189853586645..comments2024-02-22T17:07:38.225-08:00Comments on Diary of an Arts Pastor: Marks of a Mature Believer Artist (II): Disciplinew. david o. taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-50533626607177328842008-06-21T09:24:00.000-07:002008-06-21T09:24:00.000-07:00Thanks, Scott, for your note. I'm glad what I wro...Thanks, Scott, for your note. I'm glad what I wrote was helpful. Be encouraged. All good discipline does beget greater freedom in soul and body. I'd highly recommend Richard Foster's book, THE CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE. It's an excellent introduction to the basics of spiritual disciplines.<BR/><BR/>Grace and peace to you.w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-164607845155998782008-06-20T20:52:00.000-07:002008-06-20T20:52:00.000-07:00Thank you for this post on discipline. I am an ar...Thank you for this post on discipline. I am an artist and also in recovery and as an assignment my sponsor has me studying the principle behind the 9th Step-Discipline. He in particular wanted me to look at spiritual discipline. Your writing is beautiful and helped me immensely.Scott Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06361224878660334532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-51690507641015823882007-11-11T15:11:00.000-08:002007-11-11T15:11:00.000-08:00Thank you! KathleenThank you! KathleenKathleen Borkowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13015939639984986328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-50234111912666093702007-11-09T08:59:00.000-08:002007-11-09T08:59:00.000-08:00Wow! Great and poignant thoughts. I WANT a copy ...Wow! Great and poignant thoughts. I WANT a copy of that book when it comes out!<BR/><BR/>I'll be sharing this post at a forum of Christian comic book artists that I frequent at: http://www.christiancomics.net<BR/><BR/>And I'll probably post a comment on my blog as well: http://www.acupofrich.com<BR/><BR/>Peace of Christ to you!Noahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09111178378603299255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-70238448077530589722007-10-30T18:08:00.000-07:002007-10-30T18:08:00.000-07:00Hi David,I am very interested in you blog and the ...Hi David,<BR/><BR/>I am very interested in you blog and the work you do in Austin. Please check out my blog at<BR/> http://creativityandthecreator.blogspot.comChris Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17243103247517316438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-55154820269199964302007-10-26T07:24:00.000-07:002007-10-26T07:24:00.000-07:00thank you. as i re-read my comment, i can see how...thank you. as i re-read my comment, i can see how much i am projecting my own lack of discipline onto those "people I've met and worked with". permit me to re-state,<BR/>Discipline. Habit. Excellence. Great words to live.tamarahillmurphy.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04557381125830169728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-46358847785724019412007-10-25T09:36:00.000-07:002007-10-25T09:36:00.000-07:00Tamara, the easiest and possibly coy way to answer...Tamara, the easiest and possibly coy way to answer your question is to say that everybody is an artist and some people are an artist. But this is also how I'd answer the question, Who is a missionary? Who is an evangelist? Who is a doctor? All of us have been commanded to preach the good news, but some of us are especially gifted and apt to preach it as a missionary or evangelist. All of have the capacity to put Neosporin on a wound, but some of us are especially gifted and apt for the work of professional doctoring.<BR/><BR/>Everybody has the capacity to make art. Some of us, however, are especially in tune with the aesthetic dimension of human life. And by that I mean that some of us feel more deeply the emotional currents AND see into the meaning of these emotions--and the imagination, the physical senses, beauty.<BR/><BR/>Beyond this you're dealing with the practical matter that some artists are "weekend artists," some are "working artists." Some are disciplined, some are not.<BR/><BR/>Just like the rest of everbody.w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-60989292050291766662007-10-25T07:14:00.000-07:002007-10-25T07:14:00.000-07:00good, good stuff mr. artspastorman! You had me at ...good, good stuff mr. artspastorman! You had me at this quote, <BR/>"We are what we repeatedly do.<BR/>Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."~ Aristotle<BR/>I could have stopped there, but am so glad I didn't.<BR/>One question that has arisen in our community is "What (or who?), in fact, is an artist?" Someone who has achieved a certain level of professionalism? Someone who took some classes in college? Someone who desires the entitlement of exhibiting an "artistic temperment"? Using Aristotle's quote as a launching pad, I'd say, at the very least, an artist is someone who is in the habit of creating art.<BR/>I have been astounded at the people I've met and worked with who believe themselves to be artists but who have not created any art. <BR/>Discipline. Habit. Excellence. great words to ponder.<BR/>Thank youtamarahillmurphy.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04557381125830169728noreply@blogger.com