The Suffering Artist

"Not everyone creates an external work of art, like a painting or a book, but everyone creates an internal work of art, a life, a real-life story.  Everyone else creates a character, a person: we shape it into who we are.  The primary creative task of every person is becoming themselves.  We are always painting our own eternal self-portrait.  Each choice is a brush stroke.  We are sculpting our own likeness.  Each act is a cut of the chisel.  And since everyone is an artist and artists must suffer, therefore everyone must suffer.  Saints suffer most because they are the greatest artists of all."  ~ Peter Kreeft, Making Sense of Suffering

(My sons, Justin and Brandon.)