Conclusion – Think About These Things

Show me you ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

Psalm 25:4-5

 

Looking Back, Moving On

 

·        Read through your exercises.

·        Highlight whatever strikes you as particularly significant.

·        Choose three things you want to take with you. What is worth remembering? What would you like to go back and do again? Briefly describe your three “greatest hits.”

 

1.      Someone asked me, “If I had the opportunity to go back and take classes or do something different, what would it be.” I decided that I would be bored to death taking art classes. Studies of the mouth, eye, nose. Over and over and over again in different mediums until it became natural. I just wouldn’t want to do it for hours on end. However, playing the same song over and over and over again on the piano or organ was an entirely different matter. Time flies or melts away before the instrument. Perhaps music … I’d have to go way back to start that.

2.     It occurs to me that I’m not as “messed up” as an artist to begin with. I have much going for me. I already work part time. I’m already involved with some of my talents. I have a room, I just need to clear it out and start over. I now have a glorious laptop. I’ve instigated a relationship where I stand to learn a lot while I get to help…  I have my own piano, I just need to block time on it.

3.     I think I need to write without a goal looming before me. Different things every day. I need to block time for that too. And not by answering silly or not-so-silly questions. I waste much writing time here. And it is summer and I could have at least an hour if not more in the morning to write unedited by myself.

 

Next book please…

 

Finally… whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Philippians 4:8

 

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4:13 (ESV)