Tag: challenge
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😉 Another Summer, New Beginnings
Here’s my closing collection, a blend of 2017 thru 2022. Next stop – Public, Custom & Autobiographical Art. Rejoice with the living!
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Private Art Meet Up Just Beachy!
My Monday Art group? Short & Sweet expressions of friendships with two lovely ladies from up north… A wonderful way to start the week! #grateful👩🏿🎨 #makeartnotwar
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Does the Bible Earn YOUR Seal of Approval?
I enjoy perusing official stamps & seals. Vast consumerism has led to so many different kinds. One of the most interesting is the one on the gas pump. Check it out the next time you buy gasoline. The designs in the marks catch my attention. Swirls and scalloped edges in particular. […]
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A Sign of the Times
When I saw the video of Thamsanqa Jantjie, the mentally challenged signer at President Nelson Mandela’s December 10, 2013 memorial, I chuckled hard! It was clear that whatever Mr. Jantjie was dong, it was not real or truly skillful Sign Language. However, Mr. Jantjie accomplished what he set out to do. He accomplished infamy! Deficits […]
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Perfect Love Brings About …
I imagined the backdrop for the Living Nativity without thought for the rest of the manger. Once it was decided that a full manger was needed, I thought simple pimple! Let’s just use a barbecue canopy frame; a few palm branches and Voilà – a manger scene. Not so […]
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“Take Knowledge!” or Journal
“Take Knowledge!” or Journal Keeping a journal was recommended to me by a therapist many years ago. Since then I have heard learned speakers encourage the same. One day, I heard a lady teacher say she journals on paper scraps and napkins in restaurants and I knew it was for me. I highly recommend it […]
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Growth in Grace
Life is like an onion, no change without tears… Growth in Grace “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things.” Revelation 4:1b Oswald Chambers (1874-1917), a 20th century British Baptist evangelist, chaplain, and educator, was known for his dynamic thoughts. His spirited ideas led many to understand the necessity of Bible teaching. Chambers’ legacy […]
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Balance Me Jesus
My Dearest Friend, Your recent post nailed me and I cannot recoil against the truth in your rebuke. It is to my own shame that cowardice is my new black. Let this gown be removed, O LORD! I do not want to live my life ashamed to be who Creator GOD made […]
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Culture and Other Things
Went to a special cultural event yesterday where a free qiqong demo was offered. Ranks right up there with yoga, tai chi and so on, I thought. I enjoyed the time and used it to worship Almighty GOD and pray. Occurred to me, is this kind of thing okay with You […]
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Marriage on the Road to Damascus
Life in Southern California predisposes you to seemingly endless travel on a myriad of highways, byways and other ways. In a long car ride a question will likely arise, “Is GOD trying to tell me something?” This is my experience. I have the good pleasure (?) to carpool with my spouse, whom I love dearly, […]