to just be.

"And then there is time in which to be, simply to be, that time in which God quietly tells us who we are and who He wants us to be. It is then that God can take our emptiness and fill it up with what He wants and drain away the business with which we inevitably get involved in the dailiness of human living." -Madeline L-Engle "Walking on Water"

"Artist have always been drawn to the wild, wide elements they cannot control or understand - the sea, mountains, fire. To be an artist means to approach the light, and that means to let go our control, to allow our whole selves to be placed with absolute faith in that which is greater than we are. The novel we sit down to write and the one we end up writing may be different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ."
-Madeleine L'Engle "Walking on Water"