Comments on: In which Creative Blocks Crumble, and I am Set Free. https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/19/in-which-creative-blocks-crumble-and-i-am-set-free/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:01:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Loose Change in God’s pocket; a puppet on a string, or? What's your metaphor for your relationship with God? - Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/19/in-which-creative-blocks-crumble-and-i-am-set-free/#comment-25137 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:06:19 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46522#comment-25137 […] I was listening to a Vineyard CD of Songs of Surrender, and reflected on how I have been indirectly blessed by John Wimber, a man I’ve never met. Through Vineyard music; through his wife Carol’s moving biography of him The Way it Was; through the Toronto Blessing, which was launched in a Vineyard church, now called “Catch the Fire,” where my daughter Zoe is currently at the School for Ministry; and through ministries launched after a meeting with Wimber, like Harnhill Christian Centre. […]

]]> By: In which Annie Relocates the Wirral to Birmingham, and I am Chastened - Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/19/in-which-creative-blocks-crumble-and-i-am-set-free/#comment-22861 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:18:38 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46522#comment-22861 […] went on a retreat in the Cotswolds a few months ago, wanting quiet; time to refill my emotional and spiritual tanks, and to rest in […]

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/19/in-which-creative-blocks-crumble-and-i-am-set-free/#comment-21947 Sat, 27 Jul 2013 08:31:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46522#comment-21947 In reply to Don.

Funny isn’t it, how the world appears to conspire against people doing the work they really want to do!

]]> By: Don https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/19/in-which-creative-blocks-crumble-and-i-am-set-free/#comment-21946 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:24:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46522#comment-21946 In reply to Anita Mathias.

If someone had told me that my life would be taken up largely by these grant proposals, rather than just enjoying the pursuit of science, I would probably have gone into a different field!

Your essay reminded me of a story told by Richard Feynman in his wonderful book, titled “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”, in which he found release from an incapacitating block, after his department chairman told him to just go have fun in the lab.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/19/in-which-creative-blocks-crumble-and-i-am-set-free/#comment-21945 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:26:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46522#comment-21945 In reply to Don.

Yes, my husband used to be a mathematician (early retired) and did many successful NSF and NATO applications. Horrible, time-consuming things, but necessary as his college (William and Mary) didn’t pay summer salary, and professors had to raise their own through successful grant applications.

]]> By: Don https://anitamathias.com/2013/07/19/in-which-creative-blocks-crumble-and-i-am-set-free/#comment-21944 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:18:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46522#comment-21944 Anita, this is inspiring to me. I still struggle with dread and perfectionism when writing scientific research grant applications (essentially, these are the scientific equivalent of your book proposals). I continually need to find my way back into the flow of the Spirit. I do sometimes experience this kind of breakthrough into joy and fun, but not as often as I want.

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