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"Spiritual Discernment"
My husband keeping an eye on me.......
Fun Fact!! Did you know that, starting with "Root of Sin", I have started hiding images in my pieces? Look for the SDG (Soli Deo Gloria - "To God the GLORY") in upcoming pieces. You will have to be clever to find it!
My personal oasis- my drawing space
Don't EVER give up!!!
I started out as a young artist in grade school, exploring and loving all the different mediums that were available and all the different ways I could 'play' with them. In High School I was an art geek, spending all of my electives and free time in the art room. As I grew older, and entered college, I stayed on my 'art path' and was sure I wanted to do SOMETHING with an art career. Somewhere along the way, I lost sense of me and lost sense of self worth. I was plagued by fear of not being good enough, of having to climb a corporate ladder in order to 'succeed' in the world. Would art pave my way?
Would art make a success out of me? Was I good enough for art to be my actual JOB??
At the last minute, right before graduation, I switched majors- I had determined that I was, indeed, NOT GOOD ENOUGH ....and had to pick a different profession. I chose psychology. I received my diploma, but there was a little piece of my heart that died on the day I switched and gave up on myself.
Thus began a life long search to figure out who I really was. I found hobbies and I got married, and I had children - but none of these things brought back to life- that little piece of heart that I had killed when I gave up on....me.
Year after year, I dabbled with my art, but the fear stopped me from really enjoying it. My heart flickered with a small heartbeat every time I picked up an artistic medium, and then quickly died as I tossed it all aside because I WASNT GOOD ENOUGH.
Recently, in the not so distant past, I picked up my pencils with earnest. And I drew and I drew and I didnt stop drawing, I shut that voice up inside my head with each and every pencil stroke that I put on paper. And I drew, and then I painted and then I exploded into Photoshop and now I draw and I paint and I do mixed media and I have my own studio....and, OOOH- my little piece of a heart is exploding in happiness and beating furiously, because, you see, this is what I was created to do. It has taken me 30, some odd years, to come back home- to the place of my heart and to the place of my self that I gave up on so long ago.
My advice to everyone is this :DONT GIVE UP ON YOURSELF!!!! Find what you were created to do and do it with abandon! Nurture your heart and feed it with your God given destiny!
Now, I have a lot to do with my art career and I am always busy - isnt that amazing?? Isnt that just like God to bless His ministry fully?
In order to find the quiet, and the space, that I need to draw, I wake in the early hours of the morning to spend time with God. I put on my music and I try to capture His heart through the use of pastels, pencils and paint.
It is my greatest wish that you would sense and feel the heart of God. That His love for you would permeate your senses and overwhelm you! My hope is that you see your destiny unfolding and His hand upon you! DONT GIVE UP!!!
