Today is Earth Day and it is Good Friday.
Ironic...We celebrate Earth Day on the day our Lord was laid in the Earth.
In Genesis God gives man dominion over all of his creation.
What a gift to us. Over the birds of the air and the creatures of the sea. Over the plants that cover the earth and the animals that live there. What a responsibility. This is a day that celebrates this creation.
Starting Monday a fellow employee and I will start carpooling.
With the recent spike in gas prices it is ridiculous for both of us to come from the same direction at the same time. Our contribution to our carbon footprint that we probably would have never done without gas prices.
Do something today to conserve our responsibility. To take care of our earth.
God will smile.
Showing posts with label creation. Show all posts
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
watch out... it breaks
I took up something I've always wanted to do after the divorce...stained glass...I've always wanted to give it a try so I did... I set up a small studio in the house where I dabble. Yesterday since I had some time I did some work. I've always been artistic but never had the time while raising kids to do anything with it...why do we loose our dreams??
I love glass...i love the colors...there is not just blue...it is teal, iridized, wispy,smooth, swirled. One of the most well known glass makers is here in West Virginia, Wissmach glass...I never knew that...if you aren't careful you can learn something new every day. A good friend used to say that to me all the time. Wissmach glass is found in churches all over the world....how neat! We never know where we will end up do we?!
You can't look at stained glass without just saying Wow...how beautiful...knowing the time and exactness the little pieces take to create.... that's what I look at those little pieces...we stood last summer in the Upper Room in Nashville and looked at the large stained glass that defines that chapel and i said to the kids look at those little tiny pieces...Jesus' eyes...so small...and exact and took lots of work.
Each piece of art is different...no two pieces of art are the same. You are different each time you create it.
You think glass breaks easily but the more you work with it you realize it is very strong and it is your fault if it breaks...you didn't take into account the cut or how you are breaking it, which is what you are doing...you are literally breaking it when you cut it but breaking it how you want it to break...controlling the break!
Working with stained glass is a puzzle...you don't want to get yourself painted into a corner...when you can't get a piece in...then you have to take it all apart and start again.
God creates each of us and we are different...we are born, each beautiful, full of color, hard to break...each piece of us is amazing. Then things happen to us...the color turns gray and black...there is very little color...we break because of things we do or things done to us...just like that glass..we are only breaking how we are told to break...we are a puzzle...sometimes we get wedged in and it is time to be torn apart and start again.
I am ready to start again...things have happened I didn't ask for and I am asking God to help me start over...bring the color back... all of those colors, the wispys and iridized...I want them all!! Bring back the Wow! I can't wait to get started...I can't wait to see the masterpiece he will create...the dreams that will be fulfilled. Thank you Lord for this life.
Amen
I love glass...i love the colors...there is not just blue...it is teal, iridized, wispy,smooth, swirled. One of the most well known glass makers is here in West Virginia, Wissmach glass...I never knew that...if you aren't careful you can learn something new every day. A good friend used to say that to me all the time. Wissmach glass is found in churches all over the world....how neat! We never know where we will end up do we?!
You can't look at stained glass without just saying Wow...how beautiful...knowing the time and exactness the little pieces take to create.... that's what I look at those little pieces...we stood last summer in the Upper Room in Nashville and looked at the large stained glass that defines that chapel and i said to the kids look at those little tiny pieces...Jesus' eyes...so small...and exact and took lots of work.
Each piece of art is different...no two pieces of art are the same. You are different each time you create it.
You think glass breaks easily but the more you work with it you realize it is very strong and it is your fault if it breaks...you didn't take into account the cut or how you are breaking it, which is what you are doing...you are literally breaking it when you cut it but breaking it how you want it to break...controlling the break!
Working with stained glass is a puzzle...you don't want to get yourself painted into a corner...when you can't get a piece in...then you have to take it all apart and start again.
God creates each of us and we are different...we are born, each beautiful, full of color, hard to break...each piece of us is amazing. Then things happen to us...the color turns gray and black...there is very little color...we break because of things we do or things done to us...just like that glass..we are only breaking how we are told to break...we are a puzzle...sometimes we get wedged in and it is time to be torn apart and start again.
I am ready to start again...things have happened I didn't ask for and I am asking God to help me start over...bring the color back... all of those colors, the wispys and iridized...I want them all!! Bring back the Wow! I can't wait to get started...I can't wait to see the masterpiece he will create...the dreams that will be fulfilled. Thank you Lord for this life.
Amen
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