Talking to another comedian/artist minister (i.e. servant) friend yesterday about coming on and off stage ( both sides of life!): I think it’s similar with ministers and comedians and artists. I like both the onstage and backstage lives of stars! Those meant to give the gift of shine, shimmer or glory to others!

“When i step off stage, i am walking on air for a while, then the normalcy of life hits me. The letters to open, the bills to pay, my health. But on stage i am practicing to be an angel; then suddenly i fall to earth again. How to do this balancing act? Some artist just stay high all the time, and crash in silence.

I wanted to integrate my on and off stage selves! I found the secret was to keep serving with your star power, once you step off stage!
To use that hightenedness to bless others. To bring the tight rope down to the people.

And yet…however in what people call “real life”, I was never prepared for so much normalcy. Alas.

Life has always been a heightened event for me—breathing in the rarified oxygen of The Spirit. When i left the circus, the supermarket made no sense. The common worries of each day. And yet, i have found the circus again within them by now. I’m not bored, because i now serve up the circus to others wherever i am. In the tax line, at the post office, i juggle and do trapeze! I now serve the circus for and to the people.”

That’s a reasonable response to living a heightened life as a gift to others! Nice to be in a friendship spirituality with my friend, and to glean his experiential wisdom, as we go…the backstage, wisdom, still helps!!!