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Corners

My art journal prompt this week was about corners...

I have to admit – when I first read it, I thought “What the heck???”

It was only after a couple of hours of letting it ruminate in the back of my mind that I was able to process an idea. Fortunately I was able to get away the next afternoon with my new camera and my tripod to get some shots to illustrate my thoughts.

I am totally in a place where I can embrace corners…

I REALLY used to have my whole life planned out. I was always peeking around the corner to the next thing. The older I get, and the more God works on my heart, the more I see that I need to just BE in the place He has me – and not always look beyond that.

There is a sweet blessedness to being… to loving the wall I’m up against, instead of always craning my neck to see what might be waiting for me around the corner.

I’m content.

I can wait.

I can just BE here.

I will embrace the mystery of having no idea what tomorrow holds.

Only then can I truly be present in today.


I had some fun with techniques on this one and even tried my hand at painting something besides just a solid background. I used metal tape to mimic the look of the boards on the side of the shack in the pictures… (saw this on Crafty Girl's Technique Tuesday)

LOVE the way it turned out.

Comments

  1. Anonymous7:35 AM

    Very cool, Cathy! Awesome shots.

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  2. Mindy Buller7:43 AM

    You are so cool! I like you.

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  3. Cathy8:40 AM

    Lorraine - Asia calls them my "country music CD shots." They do sort of have that album jacket look to them. Now if I just had the CD...

    Mind - you like me? I'm so glad. But I'm so not cool... lol!

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  4. Lisa8:57 AM

    Cathy, I love this! I think I might steal your words from the page. This is what the last few months of my life have been partially about. As I've dealt with a number of crises I've been forced into giving up my need to plan and know every moment of the future - because it's been absolutely impossible!
    Lisa

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  5. Anonymous12:25 PM

    Absolutely gorgeous. I love it and want to see it all up close and personal. Must come for a visit.

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  6. Anonymous3:14 PM

    I am LOVING this too Cathy! Isnt that awesome when that happens? When you create something that you love!?! Super stuff! Hugs, T

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  7. Anonymous9:14 AM

    Where do you find your creativity?
    What a special gift - it just seems to bubble up from inside you now that you have a way to express it.
    Isn't it great to know we don't have to always know what is around the next corner as long as we KNOW that HE is there to take us thru whatever it is.
    Love you

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