creating.

i LOVE to paint.

i am not sure why i didn't discover this sooner?!
it's making things that i would normally find annoying or bland... enjoyable! though... i am not sure its making those things themselves enjoyable... but it sure is making the time pass quickly!
what am i saying?...
here's an example...
currently... my blow dryer is on... hooked onto my shelf... blowing towards the floor... where my painting lay almost dry... while i have been waiting for it to dry... i do my to do list! i just cleaned the bathroom... and now my painting is nearly dry... just enough time left to write a quick blog and start finishing my homework...
lovely!
I LOVE PAINTING!
oh... not to mention the whole 'not thinking about anything' concept that comes along with painting... seriously... i never knew it was possible to not think and just simple enjoy something... and if i do think... its more directed, like what i am painting, or about how sweet it is that i have the ability to paint... and then that just get me thinking about how awesome God is... and I really can't imagine anything better than being creative while thinking about my creator.

what feeling?

you know that feeling...
the one after a long days work, where your body is begging, pleading with you to stop... you didn't really notice its cries until you started to wind down...
and then... just when it feels like you can't handle anymore... you answer it's call...
that feeling. the feeling of stopping...ceasing... fully. the feeling of your body crying out with thankfulness and relief...
you know that feeling?

i like that feeling.

some solid thoughts...

So I have been reading this book... (well sort of... I read it on the way to Edmonton in the airport and on the plane... I actually haven't had the chance to continue in the craziness of the end of the semester!!) Anyway.. this book is called 'Be a Hero - the battle for mercy and social justice' by Wesely Campbell and Stephen Court. The goal of the book is to basically outline God's desire for mercy and social justice and his call for us in those regards. A book for me? maybe? A little.
ANYWAY.... I wanted to share some little snipits that have got me thinking.

"Human beings are unable to resist their bases appetites because they have been deprived of the very means of resistance." Not sure if you noticed... will power doesn't work.

They quoted Bono on this one..."We put it in the most crass terms possible; we argue it as a financial and security issue for America.... There are potentially 10 Afghanistans in Africa, and it is cheaper by a factor of 100 to prevent fires from happening than to put them out."

"It is the simple act of not looking away from deformity, from ugliness, from repulsiveness, that is the simplest act of compassion."

"God takes the poor, the need, the alien, the widow, and the orphan and instills within them rights, justice, a sense of belonging and dignity, through the unstinting deployment of justice, righteousness and compassion."