Spring 08

Sometime in October, I wrote about The Coming Spring. I guess in the depth of Autumn and the beginnings of Winter, I was kind of looking forward to Spring. Bouncing Spring. Hope-filled Spring. Colourful Spring.

Well, somehow prophetically, a new and good beginning comes this Spring. Who says Jehovah does not see, hear, or knows?

And in exuberant expectation, I commissioned a painting under the theme of New Beginnings. The artist, Nana Anoff, presented me with this delightful hope filled artwork.

Even the frame Nana used to hold the piece, a replica French window, is symbolic of open doors. The artwork speaks volumes to my spirit every time I look at it: 8 Golden Eggs - eight, the number for new beginnings -even in 2008. Eggs - representing opportunities. Green grass - representing fertility. Baobab tree in the background - representing stability. Skyscrapers - the sky is the limit

This spiring, I am embracing new and good beginnings, new opportunities, fertility, stability and reaching forth to what's before me in Christ Jesus.

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Starting Over
2008 arrived with a bang for Miss TheArtofLiving. At half past midnight on 31 December she was out of church and straight into that party that I wrote about a few weeks back. And what a party it was. After all the praying and praising, it was time to shake everything my mother (actually The Lord) gave me and celebrate the entrance of a new year and new, better, beginnings.

The past three weeks have been enormously fun and love-filled. Plenty of resting, socialising, partying and some 'me time'. It’s funny how, in every day living, we don’t realise how much we omit to give of ourselves to ourselves. Life had been filled with so much doing, doing, and yet more doing. I learnt to relax again, learnt to unwind again, and I even discovered the joy of early morning running in the mountains.

So Miss TheArtofLiving starts 2008 thanking God for Him, and celebrating all things bright and beautiful – family, friends, and the gift of life. She also enters into 2008 exuberantly expectant for fresh, happy, brighter beginnings for 2008.