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Daisy is home and happy to be working in the garden! What a long week…
Now we wait. We wait for Daisy’s body to recover, wait for the CT scan, and wait for her to be well enough to travel.
We tend to think of waiting as a fruitless endeavor, but that is not always the case. We plan on making the most of our waiting game; there is so much to be learned and accomplished. As the days go by we are deepening the roots of our love as a family. There is something to be said for a clear schedule and abundant time. Teachable moments arise daily, for all of us. We are so aware that the very rhythms of life have a beauty of their own. From picking zucchini out of the garden and serving it hours later to hanging clothes on the line together. Dancing in the living room, reading in a fort, telling corny jokes, doing chores… They all have a sweetness peppered with the reality of the fragrance of suffering. It’s funny how a little bit of salt makes the chocolate taste better; a little bitter makes the seemingly mundane a delicious treat. We are grateful for time, even in the form of waiting. We are grateful to suck the marrow out of life, whether we are in treatment or remission, whether busy or still. I encourage you, our sweet friends and prayer warriors, to stop today and watch a spider spin a web, to eat summer produce and let it drip off your chin, to look at your loved ones with new eyes, not looking to “fix” but to forgive. Not to “survive” but to savor.
I sound sappy today, but I never cease to feel this way after being released from the hospital. As I have said before, in the words of a wise woman I know of, today is all any of us have.
James 1:17
Whatever is good and perfect came down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.
As long as i have my “todays,” Jesus, my God and Savior, teach me to love like You… in spirit and in truth…
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” - 1 Corinthians 13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr9YVD05x8M
So during the past year or so, my family and I have been getting into watching the bonus materials of our DVD collection. This is probably due in part to the fact that we don’t have regular cable/fios anymore. That said, by doing so, I have fallen in love with the process of these visual masterpieces and not just the finish project. The development of characters, the inspirations, trials and the joys of completing something…it’s beautiful art.
After procuring the Beauty and The Beast dvd a few days ago, I went through the dvd’s special features and found this above jewel of a clip from the Character Artist of the Beast, Glen Keane. Though he lists various artwork that inspired him, I loved how he connected the animation of Beast’s transformation to his own spiritual transformation experience through Christ, Jesus. Quoting 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
A parable of his own life, as he puts it…
I love how he gives testimony of what a relationship with Christ can be through his art work, in a scene that is pivotal to the movie and has been watched by many…
It’s inspiring and I can only hope and pray that God, Jesus Christ, would be so present in my heart that He could be seen in everything that I do… whether it be in my art, future work places, conversations,…EVERYTHING.
“As in water face reflects face, So a man’s heart reveals the man.” -Proverbs 27:19
Take over my heart, Lord. So that everything I do, in this new life You have given me, will testify of Your Glory. - Amen
ROLANDO Cyril (France) via Curioos
There is a reason I love digital/traditional art. It is a huge inspiration to create photographs because they seem impossible to do so.
I can’t wait till I can start on my digital artwork again. Hopefully i’m not too rusty.
The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes. He is close to those who trust in him. -Nahum 1:7
Daisy’s surgery to resect her third cancerous tumor in as many years is today at 10:30 a.m. PST in our hometown of Santa Barbara, CA. The tumor is sitting where her last two were and is the…
Yesterday was my parent’s anniversary or ,as my sister likes to put it, their 24th birthday.
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
When I think about my parent’s wedding, it wasn’t full of trim, flowers and a crowd of their closest relatives and friends. No, it took place in the philipines, at a court house. The pictures that they took of the reception they had when they arrived back in the U.S. are gone and ruined.
This is not a bad thing…
Even though they didn’t have, what most people call, a beautiful wedding they definitely have a beautiful marriage. For this, I’ am thankful for.
Thank You God for the example you have made of my parents, that this is what I pray for… a God Centered Marriage.
In conclusion, as my father says,
”it is only our 24th… there are still many years ahead of us.”
(Get me outta my mind)
Feelin’ like I got a front row seat to watch everybody be happy
Can’t even paint a smile on my face, it’s so hard to not complain
Gotta try not to say
O God, what about me
‘Cause I know that’s not the way that I’m supposed to be
Get me outta my mind and into Your heart
It’s not about me, it’s not about me
So I’m gonna start playin’ my part in Your design
Now is the time
Get me outta my mind
Outta my mind
There’s a bigger picture on display and it’s starting to come in focus
Causing me to see the ones in need outside my little world
Gotta try, just to say
O God, what can I do
Doesn’t matter what it takes, I wanna lead them all to You
Get me outta my mind and into Your heart
It’s not about me, it’s not about me
So I’m gonna start playin’ my part in Your design
Now is the time
Get me outta my mind
Outta my mind
If anybody asks me what have I been up to
This is what I’m gonna say
I’ve been spending my time, outta my mind
And I’m really lovin’ livin’ this way
If anybody asks me what have I been up to
This is what I’m gonna say
I’ve been spending my time, outta my mind
And I’m really lovin’ livin’ this way
Get me outta my mind and into Your heart
It’s not about me, it’s not about me
So I’m gonna start playin’ my part in Your design
Now is the time
Get me outta my mind
Get me outta my mind
So I’m gonna start playin’ my part in Your design
Now is the time
Get me outta my mind
Outta my mind
