I used to paint quite a bit before I had babies, and those babies went to school, and those babies aren't babies anymore and keep my calendar without any blank spaces. Painting was therapeutic for me and was the one thing I did in my life that was detail oriented, although I pretend that I have every aspect of my life operating within the fine lines.
I am also a big fan of coloring books. I loved when the kids were toddlers and I had an excuse to buy coloring books and crayons. I tried my best to be patient when they wandered on to the next activity and I was not yet done with my masterpiece.
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If you follow me on Pinterest, you know that I started a board, Copy Cat (so very sorry that I bombarded your home feed), just for the pure inspiration of all that my new Journaling Bible can be. And not only am I giddy about the prospect of beautiful bible art, I am looking forward to finding fresh (to me) impactful scripture to jump out at me on each page. I find myself envisioning my current favorites and how I will illustrate them, give them life, and create new visual memories of how very good God is to us.
I can be fun, but I am not always known as the fun parent. When did I forget to be childlike? At what point did I opt out and begin to pick up the problems of the world? Why do I constantly allow perceived responsibility to trump dirty kitchen, laundry piles, and throwing a bouncy ball in the craziest of ways with my thirteen year old?
I am here to tell you all that I need to lighten up my friends. Knowing and doing are on opposite ends of the spectrum most days, but I am going to make every effort to meet them in the middle.
You know what is crazy cool? We are all the children of someone forever. And whether or not you have an enriched relationship with your earthly parents, or one that is strained, quiet, or at a point of termination...you will always be a child of God. He loves you and finds great joy when you build forts, play with legos, answer a toy phone, ride a bike, skip rope, hula-hoop, do the cabbage-patch, sing like a rock-star, and when you color like it is going to be hung on the walls of your very own art exhibit.
What childhood activity have you let go by the wayside? I challenge you to make time to rediscover it, embrace it fully like a second grader doing double-dutch, channel all the silliness that your adult self has submerged, and put a smile on your Father's face!
Mark 10:14-16 ..."Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all". And He took them in His arms and began blessing them...
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