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Daily Drawing #265, A Pencil is the Number One Drawing Tool

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My favorite drawing tool is a pencil. Mostly I use a standard #2 like the ones we used to use in school before they created those mechanical ones. I carry a pad and pencil with me whenever I can. If not I figure there is always going to be some paper and a pencil wherever I go. Having a piece of paper and a pencil in hand gives me an opportunity to create drawings like the one above. the drawing is a doodle come to life. I love to draw and hope to get better and better. Drawing is one of those crafts you get better at the more you create art. Our Christian life is like that. The more we study the Bible the more we will grow in our faith.

Daily Drawing #242, A Little Contemplation Never Hurt Anyone 

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One of my favorite old hymns is “The Old Rugged Cross.” I particularly love the line, “When I survey the wondrous cross,” because it causes me to once again contemplate what Jesus accomplished when He was crucified. I am a history and science guy so I have always believed what history tells of Jesus dying on the cross. It is as Paul Harvey used to say, “The rest of the story,” I had trouble reconciling with my nerdy science way of thinking. It was not until I contemplated the words of the Bible and sought to disprove them in my own science mindset that the truth of those words were revealed and I believed. All I can say is don’t take my word for the truth in God’s Word. Take the time to contemplate for yourself and then come to a decision in your heart.

Daily Drawing # 234, Talking to An Empty Space

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I don’t know where the quote came from but my one friend use to say, “Women you can’t live with them sometimes but you can’t without them all the time.” In the light of the cell phone phenomenon in our society I have changed the quote to, “Smart phones you can’t live without them all the time but you need to live without them sometimes. Today’s message is what a would another little rant. I have a smartphone and I have come to depend on a little more than I like but I know there are times my phone needs to stay away. Here is a list of a few:

  1. At the movies.
  2. If I was single on a date. (The date is more important than the phone. Also it is really rude to be looking at your phone when she is talking. Same goes for you ladies, turn off the phone,
  3. At church, unless you’re using it to read the Bible.
  4. In the library. At least turn the sound off.
  5. When you’re doing some public speaking.
  6. At a dinner party.

This is only a partial list. The key as the Bible says is to keep your habits under control Yes, using a cell phone is a learned habit and for some an addiction.

Daily Drawing #232, When In Doubt Hum

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I have always loved music. At one time in my life i had over a thousand albums in my collection. At one point each of those albums was a new one so I had to listen to the songs over and over again until I learned the lyrics. Until that time came I would hum along with the parts of the song I didn’t know. I think life is like learning the lyrics of a song. Until we learn to understand what God wants us to do we kind of hum along until the lyrics become clearer with each time we read Bible and pray. Practice they say makes perfect. Paul states it this way in Philippians 4:9, “What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”

Daily Drawing #229, The Home Which Once Was…

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I would love to visit a so called “ghost town.” Not to search for paranormal events because I have my own theories on those but to see how people once lived. They say you can never go home again. In a sense ghost town is a reminder what we once knew as home is never the same as we remember. I have been back to the both my birth home in West Virginia and the home where I grew up outside of Philadelphia. Neither of the places resembles what I remember from my youth. The neighborhoods are different. The homes I knew are gone. Even many of the people that once lived there are gone, moved away or deceased. The homes which I once knew exist now only in my memory. This is one of the reasons I write this blog to write down my memories and thoughts before they are gone also. In my opinion everyone should write down what they remember about their lives, take pictures of old neighborhoods and people. This is one good way you can go back home again, if only in your mind.