Luxury

When someone passes, you may inevitably reach out to the closest memories, the ones that lie closest to the rim of your soul....ready to spill out and be looked at.

But time is a blessed soldier and allows you a perfect luxury....an option that only appears after certain expanses of time.

The simple luxury is this....due to the distance that time affords, one can choose which memories to visit and celebrate.

There is no more cup that is brimming over with urgent reminders of what has already passed.

It's like a an old Sears catalogue where you are picking out your favourite new drapes. Do I like this style? Does this fabric match the mode of my current life? Are they the right length and catch the evening light of pink sunsets or block the morning sun?

And so it goes. This ripe development has give me much courage. Perhaps courage is not the right word. Joy may be a better choice.

 I am enjoying this new freedom. With freedom comes liberty and a myriad of choices.  I can choose what to remember more and what to allow to recede into the greys of forgetfullness. No more urgency to recall it all verbatim.

Thanks God. I did not know this time would come...more than a decade later.

For all my readers who have a lost close one.

Peace,

Carla

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No Pictures... only Peace

Don't worry friends. It may feel like a trap... that you need to respond to what is going on in politics or what is on the news. I just want to encourage you today.

You really don't need to respond. There is no need to respond today or ever. You can just allow God who rules all to take care of business.

If you are a person of faith, there comes a time where you simply must stand. Stand strong and stand stoutly....and if you choose silence, then stand silently.

It is a beautiful thing to understand little glimpses of God's mercy and also His justice. Some folk overemphasize the mercy of God and forget about His justice.

Those who don't understand the justice of God, are those who are ignorant of the holy Scriptures.

There is no understanding of the beauty of God's mercy if you don't understand the beauty also of His justice.

I am trying to encourage my readers who may be exasperated by what they hear and see on the news both locally and on the international stage.

But I want to encourage you to remain or become a person of strong faith.

Know that God in heaven is greatly interested and involved in what is going on in our worlds today.

He does intervene when we pray. He waits only for us to ask and believe. Ask and believe.

Don't ask if you don't believe. Ask because you believe. And then, after having done the asking.....rest in His peace.

Well, that's all friends, 

Thank you for being my readers.

In His Kindness,

Carla

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When They Say NO

When you pitch your precious idea to the boss.....and it gets shot down..... doesn't mean its a bad idea. When you apply for that job and you never hear back....doesn't mean you are unimportant.

When you create something....something you worked really hard at....perhaps for weeks, or months or even years...and it hasn't found its audience....doesn't mean it isn't brilliant.

Sometimes the hardest roads are the roads most worth walking. Some fires burn so hot that we can not see the castle that lies beyond the smoke.

Some of you have carried great burdens, burdens that were too great for you age and stage in life to be carrying. Those battle scars are deep within your soul and psyche. It can be hard to believe in yourself...when you don't feel heard.

But permit me to circle back to the main point for writing this post. GEtting a "No" is just a "no". It only carries the meaning that YOU attach to it. Sometimes a "no" simply means..."not yet". Sometimes a "no" just means "yes, but in a different format". Sometimes a "no" is just because the answer is yes, but your gift must be handled and managed by someone else other than yourself.

Many artists are not particularly business minded. The few that figure out how to make a good living from their art, usually have to outsource the marketing to a person or organization outside their own home and realm of comfort. Art is deeply spiritual, and needs others to empower it's becoming. Every artist needs a tribe to support him/her.

Some of you have the "lone wolf" habit mastered to a T. You prefer to isolate yourself because you have been hurt or misunderstood by friends or family or coworkers. You would rather risk stagnation than face unknown people or opportunities. But stagnation has it's own cost. Artists and creative folks who don't find a platform for their work may fall into despair  and stop creating.... They may fall into the delusion that they will never find their tribe or platform.

Well, I think I've said enough for today. I just want to encourage one of my readers today. No doesn't always mean a permanent "no". Maybe your YES will come tomorrow if and only IF.....you don't give up.

May God encourage you who don't know where to turn. May God lead you gently, with your permission and in the ways and means which you may receive and understand.

In His Peace,

Carla