Courage or Hubris?
Etchings: Annunciation & Virgin Birth
So yesterday I had a deadline for a juried show I wanted to enter. I had been trying to get some good photos of my pieces all week but it just didn’t materialize. So Saturday I got up nice and early to get the photos done and the application submitted. I’ve never had so many things go wrong. Every single thing I tried to do had complications. My new camera wouldn’t work, my old camera’s battery was dead. My CD-rom drive stopped working and on and on. I must have run up and down the stair 20 times. But I kept at it and I actually got the photos done and submitted at the 7th hour. It felt great, like a huge accomplishment because of all the difficultly (even though the photos weren’t great). I submitted the two etchings above.
Today I am utterly spent and exhausted. Now my question is, did I valiantly fight through the obstacles or did I display enormous hubris in forcing my will? I believe in following the energy. I think it is the Divine’s way of guiding us. Probably when I kept hitting obstacle after obstacle I should have surrendered my desire and waited. Then today I would have spent making art inside of resting. But maybe I’m wrong. Any ideas?
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I think it’s impossible to know. I ask the same questions when I’m trying to force something to happen and it’s not working. I just don’t know. I mean, where do we draw the line? If we have minor setbacks, it’s okay to push forward, but bigger ones mean stop? Or medium mean go ahead, but not big? It would be interesting to ask a real spiritual master this question (not that I know one to ask).
Congrats on getting your etchings photographed and submitted on time.
At this point I think it’s best to follow the energy. I should have stopped. But I also think if in failing to surrender to the Divine we discover where our resistance to union with God lies, it is OK.
I say, Call it whatever you want and let someone else sort it out later.
I sorted it out. Today I finished up these prints. I should have waited because the prints as they stand now are significantly better. But I think it was still a useful experience to learn something about why I couldn’t listen to the cues.