I’ve just finished Andrew Peterson’s new book Adorning the Dark this morning, and it spoke so deeply to me. In it Andrew discusses his creative process and instructs aspiring writers wisely, and the very end of the book left me weeping. I’m sharing it here, and it’s a long quote, but friends – this is truth. This is what we are trying to do, at @triplewrenfarms, more overtly this summer than ever before, and it feels like we are finally realizing the WHY behind all the blood, sweat, and tears that lead us to this point in our lives.

We are singing the song of Jesus’ beauty and how it has changed our lives, and we feel our hearts are bursting with the joy of it. Please read and enjoy, and I think you’ll find your own heart similarly challenged.

“One holy way of mending the world is to sing, to write, to paint, to weave new worlds. Because the seed of your feeble yet faithful work fell to the ground, died, and rose again, what Christ has done through you will call forth praise from lonesome travelers long after your name is forgotten. They will know someone lived and loved here. ‘Whoever they were,’ they will think, ‘they belonged to God. It’s clear that they believed the stories of Jesus were true, and it gave them a hope that made their lives beautiful in ways that will unfold for ages…. This is why the enemy wants you to think you have no song to sing, no story to tell, no painting to paint: he wants to quiet you. So, SING. Let the Word by which your Creator made you fill your imagination, guide your pen, lead you from note to note, until a melody is strung together like a glimmering constellation in the clear sky. Love the Lord your God, and your neighbor too, by making worlds and works of beauty that blanket the earth like flowers.”

P.S. Ok friends, listen: go buy this book or grab it on Audible. There’s no affiliation, I just think it’s fantastic and that we should support brave authors and makers who speak truth into the world like this.