1/2/2013 0 Comments Meet the Do-Can Bird!Hi Beautiful Creative Souls! Welcome to all my new readers! This morning as I was waking up, I felt a resistance in my body; a bit of tightness in my soul if you will. You see, the thing is I have had an AMAZING holiday season. God has really facilitated a shift in my life and I've enjoyed most every moment of the past 2 weeks where I've got to refresh, regroup & reconnect with my creative soul. Well.......that all changed today...you see, it was time to get back into my old routine. NO PLEASE!!!!!!! That's where the tightness comes in, I felt a resistance and I found the old dark grey gloom cloud moving in on me - I felt myself slipping into the pattern of thinking about the things that I simply don't want in my life anymore. Ugh. But no! I won't do it! I won't forsake the past 2 weeks of reconnecting with who I really am - it's been too amazing; too wonder-filled. That's when God moved in His grace. By grace, I was reminded that it's better to focus on the things you DO WANT & CAN DO. I started focusing on creativity, thinking about the pictures I wanted to draw today, about the people whose lives I want to reach today. I started reminding myself out loud to focus on DO want & CAN do...do, can, do, can, do, can... That's where the Do-Can Bird comes in. Why have a toucan when you can have a Do-Can?! So, here he is (...and by the way, I kinda' like the little bugger; I suspect we'll be seeing more of him & his breed in weeks to come.) "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
Thanks for reading today! Print out Do-Can if you'd like as a constand reminder to focus on the right things! Be sure to share your ideas and ways we can creatively believe together! It's a pleasure to hear from you, you creative, believing wonder! -Anne :)
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Blogglings are quick bites of creativity, information & inspiration. You know, like a little duck is called a duckling - a little blog is called a bloggling! :) Blogglings are my way of sharing my wonderful, random & inspiring creative spurts with you. Here's my fan club today! I've always wanted to work on creative projects from home. Many days as I was petting Harvey getting ready to leave for work, I'd sometimes joyfully, but mostly disappointed that I had to leave, say "Thank you God that one day soon I'll be working on creative projects from home with Harvey at my feet." This dream is coming to fruition. Speak your dreams out loud & bless them~ Holiday Meditation This year before Christmas my awesome, "Martha-Stewart-Watch-Out" sister Lynne gave everyone in the family gingerbread cookies to decorate as their favorite holiday 'characters'. I knew I wanted to decorate my cookie as Jesus; the true meaning of the season. I ended up decorating it like Jesus as a baby, all swaddled up. (My husband decorated his as Jesus on the cross thinking "Merry Christmas"...together, our cookies made a GREAT artistic impact..!) The thing is, the cookie served as a very meaningful meditation for me as I looked at the precious baby face and thought about the power & irony & meaning of God Himself choosing to come be with us in human form...I was inspired to draw the picture on the left which I titled, "The True Heart of Christmas"...Immanuel - God with us. What is your meditation as the new year approaches?
Out of the Box Sometimes I've felt I'm too clean for the dirty and too dirty for the clean. I've struggled with where a creative soul like myself fits into the churchly scheme of things. This morning as I was wrestling with how this blog was going to fit into the Christ-following & creative sides of me, this message was delivered to me. "Christ can not be boxed in by christianity." Thoughts?
Facebook cover photos! Right click and save to your computer, share these positive intentions as your facebook cover photo. Declare your 2013 creative believer intentions!
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