Never Peak

Have you noticed your most powerful art reflect themes you're currently wrestling with, discovering, or can’t quit thinking about?  

The best projects are always heart-led rather than formula-driven. I believe it’s impossible to create great art without great heart. 

Creating this way shoves formula aside. Because you aren’t re-creating your version of the current trend. You’re inviting others—through your creations—to join you on a journey that you are on with God now. The result is both timely and timeless. 

This approach requires you to know more about the beats of your own story than the characters of your favorite show. To be a student of your life. As you begin to see the themes and topics that have continuously been part of your story, you develop a unique voice to express your creativity.  

Though it may not be apparent at first, what you create will mirror your questions, hopes, dreams, fears, and passions. In other words, your art has an arc because your life does. Every story does. The ones we live and the ones we tell. 

So many creative peak early. Their best work is often their first work. Then they stop growing and simply offer more of the same.  

You’ll never peak as long as you continually seek new terrain with God. The most fascinating terrain of all is your heart. See what God’s stirring there. Then bring it to life in your art. 

Because the best projects are always heart-led.

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