"Every person is a sacred mystery." A few years back, Ron Austin caught my attention with this little statement in a brief talk at Act One: Screenwriting for Hollywood. He was reminding us that each person has an essential beauty and mystery, and that to see each person we meet as sacrament is to heighten the …
Going to the End
Run past the finish line, I was told. Endings are better than beginnings, a wise man said. Finish well, the old saying goes. Problem is, beginnings come much easier to me. Maybe to all of us. When watching actors audition, there is a moment I wait for, look for, anticipate with great hope. It's the …
Learning to Work on Your Work
So I went from full time to half time to all-the-time. From lots of people everyday to hardly any people any day. From interactions with people focused primarily on what some would call "spirituality" to interactions based on whatever happens to be flying around the human experience at the moment. From intense Biblical …
Soul Enlarging Songs
So what is a song? What's it's for? What is it about a particular marriage of lyric and rhythm and melody that makes a spirit rise from the dead, as it were, and find new energy for the day. When I was in high school, I listened to Janis Ian's famous album that contained "At …
I Need Words
Tonight, some words. The dryer's running, and it's hot in my office. How the rain outside asserts itself into my space is hard to say, but it does. I like rain, but I'm tired of it. "No grumbling," God's word says, but grumbles pour in and out of my head before I hardly know they're …
JEFF BERRYMAN 