Let Color Fill Your Life

The Creative Juices are Flowing!

This is the year of creativity for me.  There are so many ways in which my creativity is showing itself and I am feeling inspired to live my life with color and flair!  I want to share one of my favorite quotes from the Anne of Green Gables book series.  It truly describes what I want my life to look like.

“I’d like to add some beauty to life.  I don’t exactly want to make people know more. . . Though I know that is the noblest ambition . . . But I’d love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me. . .to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn’t been born.”

Anne Shirley

Anne of Avaonlea p.70

There were several years here lately that this has not been evident in my daily life.  I have struggled with depression for most of my adult life but the last couple of years have been some of the most difficult.  The world was very gray and dull.  Getting up each morning and starting the day was a struggle.  I could not bring any creativity to the surface much less get just the necessary things done each day.  It was a very low time for me.

I am thankful to say that in the last six months or so that I have come out of this low point.  Life is good again.  My doctor asked me a couple of months ago what was the thing that helped me most in this struggle.  The thing that really helped was the understanding of God’s amazing grace for me.  The knowledge that I am a much loved and highly valued daughter of the King of Kings turned me around.  I no longer felt that I had to change myself before I could feel better.  There was no sin I committed and need to repent of before the darkness lifted.  There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus!

One of the things that has come about for me is a love of crochet.  I learned to do simple chain stitch and single crochet when I was a small girl.  In the last two years I have taught myself how to read patterns and how to do ore difficult stitches.  The variety of yarns and colors is so inspiring.  My fingers itch wanting to get touch them and create with them.  I think I will start sharing some of my projects with y’all.  I hope it will inspire you to find an outlet for the love of Papa God that flows up and spills over in you life.

Here is a potholder I made from a pattern on Ravelry.com.

There is a program through the Crochet Guild of America for Masters of Crochet Techniques and Stitches.  I am in the process of completing this program.  I am excited to be doing this.  Also, I am working on creating a pattern for a laptop cozy.  I will post pictures as I work on it!

Another area that is benefiting from my increased creativity is taking care of the home.  I have not wanted to take care of the “chores” around my home.  I have not wanted to cook.  It is hard to want to do these things when getting out of bed in the morning was major accomplishment.

I have started taking care of the things around the house and getting things organized.  I am creating things on the computer to get schedules organized and synchronized.  It is my hope to have things in place to start a schedule on March 1^st.  I will keep you posted and share any ideas that I have or discover!

This blog started as a way to describe what I believe about God’s grace and I will do that more in the future.  I have some things that I want to share about the armor of God that I learned when really studying this over this last summer.  I do feel that this creativity that is spilling over is a outpouring of what Papa God is doing in my life.

Be blessed y’all!

Cindy