Yes, there is always a reason.

A plan.

Whether we believe or not, God has a plan. A direction.

I follow a guy, a wood sculptor, Ed Elliott, on Instagram. His work caught my eye. 

He sculps angels. Out of wood. His works speak to me and I'm sure so many others. 

Like this~from his Instagram feed. 

His website has so much more, here.

His work is from his heart. Majestic. Powerful, but yet humble. 

That same morning, God had me in Matthew 6:33, which is for some, a familiar verse. Message Version. “Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.”

You might recognise it in the KJVersion, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” 

Ed referenced Sir Ken Robinson, who was a global authority on creativity, education, and human potential. Orator and author. See below.

“We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. 

Or rather we get educated out of it.

Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability.

The most useful subjects for work, at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, the bottom are the Arts. everywhere on earth.

And the consequences are that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people, think they're not.

Because the thing they were good at at school, wasn't valued or was actually stigmatized. 

Don't do Music, you're not going to be a Musician. Don't do Art, you won't be an Artist. Benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.

Our education system has mined our minds, in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity.

And for the future, it won't serve us.

We have to rethink the fundamentals principles on which we're educating our children.

And the only way we'll do it, is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are, and seeing our children for the hope that they are.”

The way I see it, as we seek God above all else, we can trust God for what we need. 

Never give up. Mr. Winston Churchhill said it, right? “Never, never, never give up.”

When I have no idea what to do next and want to give up, I hear this from the Lord, “Just keep writing.”