Joe Bunting

You’ll Never Make It As An Entertainer

I got some good advice from someone in the entertainment industry yesterday. He said,

“I do not advise anyone to work in any form of entertainment, no matter how talented, if there is any other endeavor in which they can be happy and fulfilled. This business is so difficult and unpredictable, that you have to be absolutely assured there is no alternative. You will need that determination to endure the process of getting to a place where you can earn a living at it.”

Tough words to hear for an aspiring artist like me, but I suppose I knew it was tough already. People like Thomas Merton and Julia Cameron inspire me by their simplicity when facing the task of creating art. For them, writing isn’t about making money, it isn’t about their careers, it’s about being a conduit for God, and because they wrote for God it was joy rather than a job.

Yes, you need money because you need food and clothes and shelter, but I am inspired by these words,

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”

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