Hey everyone. I wanted to continue a thought I started in the last episode so if you haven’t listened to that one you want to either go back now or you can listen later because this episode will make sense without hearing the other one first. This one is probably going to be a little shorter depending on how long my voice holds up…I’ve been fighting something all week and it has moved to my throat and voice which you might have noticed. :)

In the past episode I shared how I had intentionally been stopping throughout the day to do some art …more specifically follow my curiosity and just play.  I talked about how I wasn’t making anything in particular and not overthinking anything and when I say I’m doing art throughout the day. It looks a lot like this I walk past my art table in the middle of doing something else and decide to stop. I have a mixed media book out on my desk and I cover the pages with some gesso as a base for whatever it coming next…

That has to dry so I leave the room and continue doing what I was doing before I stopped. Later that day I have a minute and I go back to the book and quickly decided on a color to spread on the page. After just a few minutes…I leave another layer to dry…

I have no idea what I’m doing and I’m not thinking about it or trying to figure anything out

And that night or early the next morning, I sit down and grab a color and go with what se

Creating little by little every day

Adding layers upon layer

 And then it’s so interesting how after walking away for a time to later return to see something different than what you remembered leaving…

I get how and why it might look different as colors dry on the page but most of the mystery of a different perspective is in the walking away and “the passing of time.

And with the passing of time, you tend to see something with fresh eyes and find clarity in what is appearing in what you are looking at.

This particular idea reminds me of a conversation my husband Ron and I were having recently…

We were discussing something and it reminded me of a very significant moment over 20 years ago when I was driving alone in our van having a conversation with God, and I can still remember what I felt he so strongly and clearly spoke back to my spirit. I’m pretty sure I have shared the specifics around this on a podcast through the years but that’s not the point of what I’m bringing it up today… I can still remember what road I was on, exactly what I was saying to God that day, and exactly what I heard back …

What I felt God speak to me impacted me that day for sure, but I can now see that the impact of those words has become more clear with every layer and season of life.

So back to the conversation, I was having with my husband, Ron… I shared the experience again and he looked at me and said “Wow, that word feels like it’s even more for today.  And I wholeheartedly agreed… 

It’s probably not accurate to say it’s more powerful or accurate for today but rather our perspective had more clarity to see and truly understand felt more powerful.

I know many of you are believers and are observing Holy Week and Good Friday is upon us. This observance of Good Friday and celebration on Resurrection Sunday is the epitome of contrast and the space in between.

The joy and celebration we have in our hearts and express on Sunday are evoked from the emotion and remembrance of crucifixion and death on Friday.

I didn’t think much about that day in-between called Saturday when I was younger but now that I’ve lived some life in that “now and not yet” space.  Saturday has become sacred to me.

Saturday holds the space for hope…even when your heart is crushed and heavy

Saturday holds the space for tears holding to the hope that one day they will be wiped away.

Saturday holds the space for anticipation + awakening …a stirring of truth and perspective that loss and death bring.

There is no resurrection without the dying…

And so much of what wasn’t clear or understood earlier before and in the middle of the dying part become clear as the days passed.

I’m celebrating with you this weekend and forever the ultimate sacrifice and gift we can ever receive and believing for the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead will continue to awaken and bring life to all that he has provided for us.