Wednesday, June 25, 2008
In my previous post I blogged about how I was tired of waiting around for slow people.
I had a nice, long conversation with Juice and Peg last night at Starbucks (always the right place for a nice, long conversation lounging on their comfy sofas over coffee) and realised that something I said to Juice a few nights ago over MSN meant something to her. I will not blog about the exact conversation but Juice was saying something about her being ready - and that she was waiting - and that she has been waiting for what seems like a long time - and God has not responded...yet.
I told her: "Patience is a sign of your trust in God" - A sentence so honest and simple that there is nothing I can do to complicate it.
She told Peg and I about it last night and said that she never saw it that way before. It was like a revelation. I can honestly say that before last night's conversation, I never thought twice about that statement.
I think that sometimes we think that we are ready to handle something, but God knows that we are not - but we ask God for it anyway. Sometimes He makes us wait, sometimes He gives us what we want to show us that hey, we're not ready after all. But God knows best. I mean, everything in His time right? It's normal to get impatient - we are but human after all. But always remember that God will never forsake us and that He will provide :)
My source of inspiration came from my own situation, and the greatest testimony of patience, Joel :)
Speaking of inspiration, we were walking around in Raffles City last night and walked into a very interesting art shop. I chanced upon this piece of art and stood there for a long while just staring at it, secretly hoping to make it mine:
I couldn't get a better picture of it but this piece is titled "Fish Fish and More Fish". It's actually 2 separate pieces of canvas which joins together to make one complete painting. I know nits about art but this piece of art by Kendall Perkins-Brakels (which was priced at SGD$5,600) took my breath away. You have to see it in person to imagine it. The colours and textures were so lively - it looked as if she was just splashing paint around and fish HAPPENED to appear. All her other paintings are of a similar style - loud, bold, daring - but look beyond all the colors to see what emerges from it. I immediately imagined it on the wall in the middle of the living room of my future house *sniggers*.
The other artist that caught my eye was Coplu.
Coplu's paintings made me smile for good reason.
He paints about love, dreams and that beautiful, simple life :)
This one's called "Holding on to a dream" (I love this one):
This one's called "Devotion":
I can't find a picture of the specific painting that I saw but it was about sowing the seed of love.
Just beautiful.
All these talented people make me so envious.
I thank God that even though I don't have artistic genes, I still had the chance to admire these works.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 10:06 AM
Comments:
Post a Comment
