K’s landscape creation after 10 weeks of art classes
I have always loved capturing landscapes with my camera. My only limitation is this, I don’t get to travel often or far enough to capture this sort of landscape through my lens.
Looking at this picture that K has completed this week showed me how we view landscapes is parallel to how we view our lives. Many times I find myself so occupied with the here and now, that I lose sight of the big picture of things.
‘Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.’ ~ Charles Linbergh
Despite the challenges of the daily grind, and of certain days that make me feel a lot less hopeful than others. I always need to remind myself to look up and out of the place that I have been, into a place where hope lives. A place where I have learnt to be content to be where I am and be energized again to move forward.
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Photo *Heart* Fridays – Yes You Can!
He sat down and completed almost half of the chinese writing workbook without any prompting. I had to tell him to go easy on his handwriting practice. He exclaimed, “I can do some more, because I like to do difficult things, it is boring when it is easy!”
I wish I can have this same attitude when I face all challenges. Many times when I tell myself I can’t do a certain thing, I will likely end up not being able to do it.
Is it really so easy? Say you can and you will do it. Say you can’t and you will not be able to do it.
Well just this year, I have proven to myself that by simply believing that I can, I dove right in, forged right ahead, learning and making changes as I went. But not without following God’s leading, as only He can make it happen.
With every challenge that comes our way, the biggest obstacle for us is a ‘can’t do’ attitude. Everything can be overcome when you believe you can. It may take lots of hard work, obstacles to cross, battles to fight, mountains to climb but it is possible, just start, by believing you CAN.
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right ” – Henry Ford
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Photo *Heart* Fridays – Take the Plunge!
Watching him dived off the edge made me nervous.
What if he loses his balance?
What if he knocks his head on the side of the wall?
Before letting him dive off, I set a couple of ground rules. “No spinning… take a big leap from the wall..no monkeying around when u jump…focus on the jump…make sure that the water is deep enough…”
He is only 5 and can surely do with some tips from his mom on how to make a safe jump into the pool.
Seeing him display so much enthusiasm and the lack of fear to take the plunge off the edge, reminds me that sometimes it might be worthwhile to take risks in my life, and take a plunge into that very thing which will make me nervous. Who knows what pleasant surprises could be in store?
