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“Who are you, Art Wonderer?”

I want to imagine one situation. I’m standing on a crossroad with many paths. I have to choose name. Someone can say that choosing a name isn’t difficult, chiefly that it must sounds cool. I don’t think so. The name must reflect personal characteristics. Why I compare the choosing a name with a crossroad? If I choose a name it becomes my destiny. A name submits me to live accordingly my name. When I read the Bible I knew that many heroes had proved true of their names meaning. The name reflects the main point of character, general behaviour. The smart phrase was in a one interest Russian cartoon: “The yacht sail as you named it”. For example, if I named my yacht “Victory”, my sailing would be with victories and success. If I named my yacht “Snoring axe” I would sink very fast as an axe.

If I had the opportunity to go to the Australian Outback and I could chose name for myself as the Aborigines it would be difficult for me. I never was in the desert. I don’t know how life in a desert is. Maybe I would choose one of the following names: Desert Lad, Wild Fugitive, Cunning Serpent or Heaven Retainer. That is from dreams about adventures. But I have to choose name for my current life. My new name must tell about my lifestyle, character traits, and upbringing. My name would be Art Wonderer, in abbreviated form AW (but pronounced – “Eivi”). Why would I want to choose this name?

“Art” means something related to the producing of beautiful things such as painting, drawing, singing and others. There are activities such as writing literature, verse or writing and performing music. “Wanderer” means somebody who moves slowly around a place or to go from place to place with no particular purpose.

I described the meaning of these words. But I have to write what my new name means for me. The meaning is based on my principals of life. I join my new name with my faith. I like very much the art. I want to be a composer, writer, singer or painter, but not as a job. I can’t be professional in these fields. However, I try to do something. I am an amateur in many spheres of art. I wrote tens songs for Christian youth. I tried my possible in graphic arts. My collection of soundtracks for songs consists of more than three hundred pieces. I was a director of many plays. All of these and others things are reflecting my love to art. Therefore I’ve added “Art” to my new name. Also I appreciate of feelings. After all, the human is totally different from animal. This characteristic one is properly real unlike everything. Everything else in our world is going to end. But feelings can live forever. The main goal of Arts is provoke the feelings beauty, force thinking about good, purport of life and God. I try to do it by my creative ability as I can.

Why am I wonderer? After all years of my study I understand that patriotism is very harmful idea for people. You can see now that many problems all over the world concerned with this idea. I understand that in theory patriotism is a good idea like each idea on our planet. But people can put nothing into practice. I decide follow the Bible words: For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding (1 Chronicles 29:15). I’m a cosmopolite. I don’t want to pin my hopes with one country or nation, town or organization. I have to find myself in something. The quest to realize my potential is my wandering. I serve for people to reach one goal – “For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians3:20). I know that my words sound unusual. I’m not a fanatic. But it is my choice. I just try to make God’s will real. I chose to be Art Wonderer and I hope God will help me.

April 2007

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