Well here we are another year. I finished 2017 with my last entry for my Daily Art Challenge. Now I begin or continue a new challenge, depending on how you look, to create 636 more drawings with no limits on time. I hope to announce my work for sale in the near future. I will let you know when and on what site.
One of my favorite funny songs of the Christmas season is, “The 12 Pains of Christmas.” It is a song about all the things which can wrong at this time of the years. One of them is stringing up the Christmas lights. If you’ve ever done it before you know what I’m talking about. The lights can be all tangled together or in the old days when one light went out the rest would go out. Today however most Christmas lights are made to stay on when one of them isn’t working. This goes a long way to insuring that the light will still shine no matter what.
I think our life is like the Christmas lights. There are times when our life is a tangled up mess that has to be unraveled. Once that is done even though one bulb may be out but because of the Holy Spirit inside us our light from the faith we have in God still shines forth for all to see.
Growing up I loved to read all the Greek and Roman myths. I loved the strength of Hercules and the failure of Icarus to listen to his father’s warnings. As I grew older I started to come to know people who read the Bible. they would tell me of the stories of Noah and Samson among others.
At the time I made the myth-stake of thinking the Bible and all it contained was just a bunch of stories or just past civilization attempt to rationalize the world in which they lived and all the unexplained happenings. It was not until my late 20’s that I came to know the truth which was contained in the Bible.
I did not come to the conclusion lightly. Being the science guy I am I read and studied other works besides the Bible seeking answers. In the end the answers seemed obvious, God is real, Jesus was, is and always will be who claimed, God’s Son and salvation comes to those who in faith enter into a relationship with Jesus. So don’t myth the truth…seek the truth and the answers will come.
The drawing, “Catching Bubbles,” is a glimpse into the past when the simple things like trying to catch bubbles in our hands fascinated us for hours.
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