I was thinking the other day, for a change. Of a time not too long ago, when I was deeply absorbed in building a sand-sea lion. I am not much of an artist, especially not with this particular media. After a few minutes, of struggling to form the complicated body structure, I noticed that it did not in any way resemble a sea lion.
It was at that point that something magical happened! Someone walked by and said, "Hey, cool shark." I immediately stopped building a sea lion, and stopped to admire my sand shark.
From this I have taken a few lessons. Firstly, never tell someone what you are making. It could prevent you from lying about what you were trying to make. Secondly, we are all unfinished masterpieces. Somewhere along in your journey, someone may have told you what you were. They might have even told you that you were not good at something, or should quit something. But bear in mind, we are still being molded and shaped. The great artist is at work. You never know how you might end up!
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I think of a couple of things here.
ReplyDelete1). HOPE.
2). Enter twangy country music. The song where the little boy is playing himself in baseball, throws the ball up three times, swings and misses each time and then pats himself on the back for being an incredible pitcher.
3). The reason Jason and I intentionally do not call out particular traits we see in our children such as "shy", "obnoxious", "follower"....etc, etc, etc.
4). Popeye said "I yam what I yam." But, God makes us a heck of a lot more than what we are. Well, God and spinach.
5). Once I made a bunch of modern looking sand dwellings out of bowls. Jason saw boobs.