Etch-A-Sketch Art And Other New Art

 Last time my sister Katie was here she took some photos for me of some of my art....

                                A  nautilus on the Etch-A-Sketch

                            A 36x20something.....drawing of dancing daisies , I intentionally planned the daisies to be black and white I thought the contrast would make them seem more dramatic.

                        A fire daisy that was stuck in my head. ( I decided to banish it to paper ..It was taking up my brain gigabytes)

                        Flowers of many colors.



                             And I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a good night!

Amazing Love

 Lately I have been thinking about love.....
  

How God so loved the world that He sent His only Son to pay the price for our sins.

I have been thinking how love covers a multitude of sin and how in Proverbs 10:12 it says... hatred stirs up strife but love covers all sins. 

Also I have been think about how forgiveness works.

When someone wrongs you it is much like a wound, you can take care of it or you can pick at it and it gets infected and maybe even leads to dire consequences. But sometimes even when a wound is taken care of and heals it still leaves a scar....those scars serve as reminders of what happened and sometimes even old wounds still cause you pain.

 Forgiveness is something that takes work and time.

 Some people in my life have done things that really hurt me...but I love them a lot, I have prayed for them daily and somehow they can make a really big boo boo and I forgive them, but then there was a person in my life who I was not fond of and they said something that was not nice to me about my family and I still struggle with forgiving them, compared to the big boo boo... what this person said was not really that big of a thing so why do those words spoken so long ago sometimes still bother me?

I think I did not love this person enough. 

When I was praying for them I really should of been praying for myself also, I should of been praying for God to give me more love.

I had the wrong attitude.

 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God . He who does not love does not know God ,for God is love.
                                                                                            ~1John 4:7-8

Also I know I have done bad things too...and I am thankful others have forgiven me.

We all sin. 

Mr. Mcgreenie And His Meats....

  For your reading pleasure....

I made this for my sister Katie to read to the amazing Ace !  I used to have 3 book clubs, one for each of my siblings . When they were really into it I did 3 a day....it slowed down though, it is pretty hard to make 3 different books a day. The longest lasting one was Dog Club ...I did it for 10 years. Katie saved lots of them...Ace will probably get to see those also.  I am glad there is a little kid in the family again!

If you are wondering how things are going....not the best, I have an infected knee...today it is looking much better!  Antibiotics seem to be working, I was worried... it was and still is very painful.  I had a little scratch on my knee that healed about a week ago and apparently some germs decided it was like a hot tub in there or something and had a party. Really Creepy if you ask me....I could make a horror picture book about it but I don't think I will, I did make a book for my brother called Germs inside you one time when he was sick I guess that was sort of scary but it had a happy ending and the germ died and had a funeral but no one came.  That was that.

 Please keep praying for my knee.

Thanks to everyone for all the kindness lately. :)

Every Thought Captive..

 Every Thought Captive is a good read, I find myself challenged,encouraged, and it brings new thoughts to my mind.

It has been my habit for a few years to read it at breakfast , sort of like some people read the newspaper.

This November ....I was featured in an article by Laurence Windham  , if you click on it hopefully it will get big enough for you to read it.

Goodness is by Gods grace .

Find out more about Highlands Ministries and read more at this link:http://highlandsministriesonline.org/

Also if you want to check out a good blog go here:http://sppcpastor.blogspot.com/
 I believe you will find it worth your time.

What I did Saturday...

...I listened to public radio,
I had some tea.
I read some Charlie Brown books....

 These books were given to me by some nice boys at the community yard sale this spring...I asked them how much they wanted for them and they said I could have them for free!   Anyway....those boys  bought some wooden canes and put on quite a performance in the grass.. they were running really fast and hooking each other by the ankle and right when you thought the ankle was going to be busted they did somersaults....I thought they seemed like monkeys...fabulous extraordinary acrobatic monkeys.  

Their show ended when they were spotted by their Dad....after one got the cane a round the other ones neck, he did not cry ...he grinned!

I think he must of been part monkey, or rubber.

The books brought back their show in my mind.

I found myself laughing at some of the pictures in the books but when I was done the pictures in my mind were far funnier.

Today....I looked at the books again and well...visions of monkey boys filled my head.

It is good to laugh.

I have had some sort of nasty bug for days but you know, laughing is good for your bones..I can hope it slaughters germs.

The Sun Still Rises Every Morning And The Flowers Will Still Be Dancing

  I have had some not good days since I last wrote...some really bad seizures but then I had a couple of days with no seizures. ( That was amazing)

Got off of a drug I think made me hallucinate...Artaine , maybe it did help with the Dystonia  but I need to recognize my parents.....any doctor that would rather me be hallucinating is foolish, just plain foolish.

 I can not walk and have difficulty chewing but at least I know people.

I got see a lot of friends the weekend before last and was given ginormous amounts of love and even an accordion player came and played in my room.

With all that love and the sun rising every morning and my flowers lift their little flower faces doing their daily sun dance and rejoicing in their life and their Creator  ......I find my joy also.

At the end of their dance, when the sun sets the orchids nearly always face me and I feel like they are smiling.." That was simply wonderful"....they seem to say and I have to agree.

The night before Thanksgiving a very bad thing happened and it hurts very much...emotionally , something I feel like I should not go into detail about but it is something my family has had to deal with for years.

I do know that God is bigger than this....and I can cast my cares on Him in fact I have to because they are just too big for me right now, nothing is too big for God.

I am praying God will help me forgive...because I cannot.

I do not wish to become bitter , I do not want to be full of anger and hate.

I pray and pray...because I can do nothing else about this.

 Rejoicing, dancing orchids.

 More rose drawings

They face you when the sun sets.