Undone

May 8, 2012 By 2 Comments

image courtesy of morguefiel.com

God, i want to offer you everything
but what i’m full of right now is
nothingness. i want to bring you
the best, the brightest,
the most useful bits of me.
but all i have right now is
emptiness. i want to bring you
a heart full of love
that shines for your glory,
but right now all i have
is a gaping wound in need of
your touch. so i bring it anyways
because i don’t know what else
to do with it. it’s not pretty
or useful, not even fit for
goodwill. will you
take it, remake it,
renew and restore me.
pour out your healing love
on my heart.
Amen.

Filed Under: Devotional Thoughts, Prayers

Card Craze

May 8, 2012 By 2 Comments

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I’m still having fun making handmade greeting cards. My tendency is to want to make everything reproducible but I find myself getting away from that. It’s getting to be so that each one is like a mini canvas for me. Even though they’re (somewhat) 3-dimensional, each one starts out on a digital canvas in Photoshop. For this one alone, there’s over 25 different layers, including the digital brushwork which is so much fun!

I’ve been getting ideas from the Take Ten magazine by Stampington (a version of the above card appears in the Spring 2012 issue). But whereas those are all created with paper and rubber and/or acrylic stamps, I do everything on the computer then print it out, cut and assemble. I like not having to store stamping supplies. For this card, I figured out that I can run cheap watercolor paper through my printer, so the card has a really nice texture to it. The beauty of digital is that I can easily open a card file and by changing one or two layers, have a totally new card for a different occasion.

Thanks for looking!

(digital elements courtesy of ScrapGirls.com)

Filed Under: art stuff

God Believes In Me

May 6, 2012 By 2 Comments

If self-confidence were a gas tank, I’d have to admit that I’m often running on empty. At times, it is only half full at best. There have been times, especially in the past few years, where the confidence others have shown in me has been what sustained me.

And yet I’ve realized recently that ultimately what matters is that God has confidence in me. God believes in me. It’s not because of my character or my track record. It’s not because of my personality or abilities. He believes in me because he is my Creator. He believes in me because of who he is and what he’s done for me.

Even though at times, I forget that reality . . . still, his presence and love in my life is what sustains me from day to day. And I am grateful and long to live more deeply into that reality day by day.

Filed Under: Devotional Thoughts
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