Adequate consideration
I have never been good at designing. I like nice fonts and I appreciate well-kerned text and great alignment but seriously when it comes to actually designing things I am hopeless and my ideas all clash and I have to look everywhere for inspiration but it all clogs up at the dam that is the design mental block.
I only design when there's input; when I feed on something in the word the image just sort of appears in my head ("God plonks it into my head") and I draw it out. It's effortless and all it needs is some fine-tuning on the specifics, but sometimes when I see something and I can't put it on paper it frustrates me. Usually I can, but I only design well when the exact image appears in my head - and I'll just transfer the rest to paper. I don't know how it works, but God, I think it's pretty cool.
I designed three times this week - so many I feel guilty. But at the same time, I recall what Lizzy told us last Saturday: that you only have output when there is input. I'm glad that the input turns into this select output; I wouldn't have anything else. Perhaps the area we should serve in is the area we feel like we HAVE to express ourselves in after feeding on the Word - some people cannot contain themselves in worship, some have to play an instrument, some have to write. I have to design.
I only design when there's input; when I feed on something in the word the image just sort of appears in my head ("God plonks it into my head") and I draw it out. It's effortless and all it needs is some fine-tuning on the specifics, but sometimes when I see something and I can't put it on paper it frustrates me. Usually I can, but I only design well when the exact image appears in my head - and I'll just transfer the rest to paper. I don't know how it works, but God, I think it's pretty cool.
I designed three times this week - so many I feel guilty. But at the same time, I recall what Lizzy told us last Saturday: that you only have output when there is input. I'm glad that the input turns into this select output; I wouldn't have anything else. Perhaps the area we should serve in is the area we feel like we HAVE to express ourselves in after feeding on the Word - some people cannot contain themselves in worship, some have to play an instrument, some have to write. I have to design.