From the Editors

Creativity—'It's like breathing'

Marilyn Jones

Have you ever had that urge to drop everything you're doing and just pick up a paintbrush to splash onto paper the colors of the morning sunrise—or maybe play the guitar, plant some roses, or crank up the CD player and dance just for the sheer joy of dancing?

Letters

letters

with contributions from Jessie Barth, Ruth H. Holmes, Cynthia Overton, Alexander Lehrman, Linda M. Cook

You never cease to amaze me with your timely articles.

Article

items of interest

J. Michael Parker with contributions from Todd Spangler

"As part of a long-term program to usher in change in the mindset of convicts serving sentences in jails, [the] Maharashtra [state] government [in india] has introduced a series of lectures by prominent spiritual leaders to be delivered in various prisons, the state's junior minister for prisons, Kripashankar Singh, said.

Article

Creative power—right when I needed it

By Deborah Huebsch

No matter where you find yourself in the creative process, God is the great Artist the creative source of all the good you express.

Article

Conversation on an awakening

By Warren Bolon Senior Writer

Actress and writer Akuyoe Graham says music has a source that's not of our own creating—it's a gift from "the Father of lights."

Article

At work for the good of it

Steve Carlson with contributions from Georgia Engel

The entertainment industry is notorious for being a tough and sometimes materialistic environment. But Georgia Engel, who has worked in theater and network television for decades, finds it a fertile spiritual proving ground.

Article

ACTING—ON HOPE

Georgia Engel

For a few years, everything I worked on in the entertainment industry was mediocre or third rate at best.

Article

Always trying for the best she can do

By Kim Shippey Senior Writer

Edna Hibel spends most of her waking hours immersed in the painting and lithography that she loves—much of her work emphasizing the great importance of nurturing the children of the world.

Poem

Trusting

David C. Kennedy

Must we lend a handto guide the orbiting moon?

Poem

Psalm: God's beauty

Hugh Pendexter III

Thou art beautiful, oh Lord, my God,Beautiful beyond the mortal dreamThat feebly imitates infinity:Blind atoms hurtle aimless through the voidOf solid matter; and gadding galaxiesCavort in billion-year-long cartwheelsThrough vacuous immensities of space;More beautiful than helical capriceOf molecules entwined in DNA.

Poem

Comfort

Brian Kissock

Shortly after the terrorist bombing of 1998 in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the homeland of the author of this poem, Brian Kissock, recorded these words as a healing response to the grief that followed—including his own for several good friends who were lost in that tragedy.