Today I am mid a rather good-sized wholesale block order. I should be happy instead of concentrating on all the work ahead...Right?!? I should be wearing a smile instead of groaning...
But alas, I am a melancholy personality through and through... The optimistic gene somehow managed to pass me by.
What makes it worse is, as a Christian, I'm fully aware that optimism should be a way of life... Knowing it, however, doesn't always make it so... I'm just not hard-wired to have an initial cheery, upbeat disposition and outlook on anything. I have to work on it, and work through it -- CONSTANTLY!
As I pondered all this for about the millionth time (trying to get to "the happy and the smile"), I realized the one thing I can always rejoice in is the personage of God. In Him there is no half-empty... no downside... no unhappy reality. Wow! Even melancholy me was amazed!
Guess that means, if I really want to work on my general outlook, I need to spend more time thinking upward, and allow Him to be the software that upgrades my hard drive.
Cardworks:
Floral image (catalog pg.21) was stamped on a Fabriano Medioevails note card, using misted, direct-to-rubber Lyra watercolor crayons, then overstamped with "huffed" Marvy markers.
Bible verse (pg.26) was stamped in Memories ink.
Note: Fabriano Medioevalis noted cards are dreamy! They measure 3-3/8" x 5-1/4" - are 96lb. in weight - have a soft deckle edge - and a fine felt finish. Anything put on them, even the simplest image, or easiest technique, ends up looking quite posh.
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