"It is so easy to be distracted.  Any kind of pain, misdirected desires, some odd noise off in the corner designed to make us afraid, can turn our attention.  It is so difficult to decide for yourself what is really important when there are so many voices shouting around us, clambering for our attention.  Here is where I come to when the distractions get too loud.  "God is love, and that anyone who loves is born of God.'  Love is like a hot knife going through butter.  No matter who you are, what your life is like, you still are looking for Love.  We learn how to give Love away when we receive it.  We do not now, nor will we ever deserve this mystery.  But, we are loved.  When we quit the pointless assignment of deserving or earning it, we are free to see others and give them the same grace.  Painting sets it all aside for me.  I enter a place where there are no pressures or demands.  A place of rest..."

Dorsey McHugh