Stacy

“…creativity is essential to our human flourishing, and therefore worth pursuing whether or not you receive payment or applause as a result.”
― Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

“Film, like all of creativity, requires surrender, releasing our work into the world knowing it is not perfect, and perhaps even, the extra grain is what makes it special.”
― Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

“Radical obedience, at the heart, is the sheer act of saying, "Yes, Lord." Yes, I'll go there. Yes, I'll do that. I'll give you my best effort because YOU are worthy of my best offering. Radical obedience is a zealous commitment to fulfilling whatever holy work God sets in front of our hands.

This means where God calls, we go. When God calls us to write, we write. When God asks us to sing, we sing. As artists made in the image of the ultimate Artist, we paint and draw and sew and sculpt, not bitterly or lazily, but with enthusiasm, devotion, and a sense of joyful eagerness to participate. Because when we link arms with our Creator to do what He uniquely designed us to do, we usher a bit of the Kingdom into this world--and God gets the glory for it.”
― Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

“If you view creativity as a selfish act, you will always struggle to justify making time for it.”
― Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood