Comments on: In His Element http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/in-his-element Religion and spirituality from a Unitarian Universalist perspective Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:53:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Shelby Meyerhoff http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/in-his-element#comment-2706 Shelby Meyerhoff Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:43:22 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/in-his-element#comment-2706 Dear Dawn, Yes, that's it exactly. Have you found a way to get back into making art? One of the things I miss from high school is the structure of having art class built into the day. Without that, I'm really looking for ways to make artwork a part of my routine, so that it doesn't get shuffled to the side, but it's a challenge! Dear Dawn,

Yes, that’s it exactly. Have you found a way to get back into making art?

One of the things I miss from high school is the structure of having art class built into the day. Without that, I’m really looking for ways to make artwork a part of my routine, so that it doesn’t get shuffled to the side, but it’s a challenge!

]]> By: Dawn http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/in-his-element#comment-2690 Dawn Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:36:04 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/in-his-element#comment-2690 Shelby, I loved this post because I kept thinking "me too" while reading it; up until I was in my early 20's I did a lot of artwork-took art throughout h.s., and even studied a semester at art college in phila., but with life-work, kids, etc, I became more and more "practical" and doing art seemed "frivolous"-no productive point to it; I forgot about feeding my soul on many levels-too much a Martha. And-I have always had a hard time getting my head around this bible passage as well; I remember thinking even as a child, "Well isn't Jesus a really important guest, and wasn't it right to work hard to make everything very nice for him?" I could never get my head around it-I couldn't see why it was wrong for Martha to care enough to make things nice, and why couldn't Mary and Martha "take turns" working and listening? I think that I still feel this way, especially now, that there has to be some kind of balance...I haven't found it yet, though! Shelby, I loved this post because I kept thinking “me too” while reading it; up until I was in my early 20’s I did a lot of artwork-took art throughout h.s., and even studied a semester at art college in phila., but with life-work, kids, etc, I became more and more “practical” and doing art seemed “frivolous”-no productive point to it; I forgot about feeding my soul on many levels-too much a Martha.

And-I have always had a hard time getting my head around this bible passage as well; I remember thinking even as a child, “Well isn’t Jesus a really important guest, and wasn’t it right to work hard to make everything very nice for him?” I could never get my head around it-I couldn’t see why it was wrong for Martha to care enough to make things nice, and why couldn’t Mary and Martha “take turns” working and listening? I think that I still feel this way, especially now, that there has to be some kind of balance…I haven’t found it yet, though!

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