Interestingly enough, in my church, I’m not widely known for my art and design anymore. That’s not a bad thing to me, because sometimes I don’t know if I could match the tastes of my church’s preferences. Instead, for the past few years, I’ve been doing a lot of talking and relationship building work. I’ve had to do talks on how people think and how they communicate, and funny enough, I learnt a lot of it from the visual communication topics that I’ve had to do in school, and things around that.
I guess at the heart of it, it’s almost always how we respond to each other that counts the most. The relational part of life trumps a lot successes.
But that doesn’t mean that I give up my art and my design experiences either. It’s just a lot of balancing of what I actually do and what I am competent with. That line is difficult to tread. But maybe just like my sketching work that grew over the years, I might be able to do art a lot more than what I would expect of myself right now.