Here is a talk from 2010 by Makoto Fujimura about Shalom and success, especially as an artist. In essence, what does it mean to follow the call of the artist and follow the call of Jesus? Shalom is not an easy category to really understand. I love the complexity of the call of Shalom. As Fujimura asks early on the talk, "what is the deepest realm we can get to when questioning success? ... we wake up and we are 40 or 50 and [wonder] 'I've done all that I have and thought I could attain, and yet there is no sense in me of fulfillment. Why did I quest... after success? Why did I quest after these things?' and you end up really [being] alienated from yourself." So, in the end, this vision of Shalom is not just about the artist, it is about the art of living. It is about what we give up or sell off to be successful without ever really knowing what success means in our lives. We realize that we never asked the right questions when we were deciding what way our lives would go...
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