Life After Art What You Forgot About Life and Faith Since You Left the Art Room

by Appling, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780802407399
• ISBN10: 0802407390
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-04-01
• Publisher: Moody Publishers

Summary

For most adults, the art room is a memory from long-lost childhood school days. Art class probably did not mean much more than smearing crayons and paint onto construction paper-with no real value to an adult who is dealing with the pressures of relationships, careers, finances, and raising a family. Even with these external pressures, the biggest concern adults often face is the spiritual crisis of self-value. We fear unmet ambitions. We fear that our lives have little meaning, purpose, or value. We fear that God has a plan for us, but we're missing it. These fears prevent us from leading the productive, contented, joy-filled lives that God created us to live. And so, the long-forgotten art room actually holds three God-given keys, available to every adult, for living the life we were meant to live. When we entered the art room for the first time as kindergartners, we all instinctively knew some things that we would progressively forget over time and now it's time to learn them all over again.

Author Biography

MATT APPLING teaches Pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade art, as well as high school art history. He has taught and ministered in a variety of school and church settings. He has also been a popular blogger for four years, as the author of www.thechurchofnopeople.com, as a syndicated columnist at www.prodigalmagazine.com, and as a featured contributor to many other online publications. Matt lives with his wife, Cheri in Kansas City, Missouri.

Table of Contents

1: All Children Are Artists Why we are all born naturally creative 2: The Problem is to Stay an Artist as an Adult How we lose our natural-born creativity 3: Life Without Beauty Society suffers an epidemic of lost creativity 4: Coloring Inside the Lines Relearning how to create within the boundaries of life 5: Freedom to Fail Relearning how to take necessary risks 6: Born to Create Relearning how to be a creator