How many years have you made resolutions that were never kept? How many chuckles have you had thinking about them? Have you ever kept any of them? If you have kept any, can you count them on more than one hand? It is the rare if not impossible individual who can say in all honestly they have made and kept a New Year resolution for the full year. These are things in our lives that have been hard to shake. Smoking, cursing, gambling, drugs, strealing, lieing, judging others and any other negative or adverse thing in our lives that causes us pain or is outside of what the word says is good. None of these things are easy to eliminate in our lives. This year consider taking those things and placing them before the Lord and simply releasing them in His care to dispose of. Do this daily or when the urge to do any of these things comes to mind. Do not stray from this habit of release to the Lord. Follow the leading He provides, even though you may fall, and you will be clensed. If you fall, get up, brush yourself off, aks for forgiveness and continue to place your cares before Him. Ask for the strength to do what needs to be done. Be faithful to the path you have chosen. Beleive in the Lord. You may need to continue for some time but you will be victorius in the end. When you are free of the bondage that you placed before Him do not forget to thank Him for it.
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Today I am sharing an image from Serendipity. This is one of 3 images being done for Jill (my DW) for her Christmas card projects. This is the first one. I will share the others as the are done. For some reason the white color appears slightly yellow in the photos.
The Copic colors are: G17, R39, YR15, E57, T0, B000, Multiliner 0.05, Pro White Water Color
I am not comletely happy with this result and will try to do better with the next two tries.
Yes, our Lord is so faithful when we stumble to assist us to realise our error, repent and restart in his strength
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colouring Jim, no matter what you may feel - we are often our own harshest critic.
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Blessings
Maxine
You're right about resolutions being almost impossible to keep if viewed in their entirety. To make them easier, I call them goals and also break them down into smaller targets. This year, and indeed since the beginning of December, it's reaching the next lower 5 or 0 on the scale, depending on where the current number is.
ReplyDeleteAs always, the image is beautiful xoxo