Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Entertaining angels

   I am a believer that we have guardian angels. I also believe that some of them are our family. My next door neighbor growing up tells me that I used to talk to my dad in the sky like he was sitting next to me. Kids are innocent so I tend to think they hear them more than we adults do.

    When Autumn was 2, she came into our room about 2am one night. She was a good sleeper and had never done that before. She said Jason's Pop-paw had said goodbye. I thought she was dreaming until about an hour later we got the call that Pop-paw had passed away 5 minutes before Autumn came to wake us up. I fully believe he came to tell her goodbye.

     This leads me to my current angel visiting me as I like to believe. I have relatives who visit my dreams. It used to depress me but I soon realized they always had some word of wisdom that later came in handy. They know that I can't learn a lesson the first time, I gotta learn it five or ten times before "I get it".

     Lately it's been my Popaw in my dreams. He's not one that comes in dreams a lot for me. My Popaw was a farmer. He loved nature and he loved to paint it. The day that he died, I was sitting on my patio crying. A mama doe brought her twins into my backyard. My backyard became their playground that summer. They always came on days I was anxious, sad, or had some hurdle I was trying to jump. I just always knew it was Popaw. The timing was always perfect and always lifted my spirits. The deer became so used to me I could slip outside and watch them for an hour. Mama doe always knew I was there but she let them stay. The last two years like clock work a mama doe brings her twins to my backyard to play.

     Right after my Popaw died, I also started finding four leaf clovers. I remember as a kid him leaning down and picking one to show me. I had never had found one before. That summer I found over 50. I pressed them and made them into bookmarks. They were everywhere I went. Last summer, they started showing up everywhere again about the same time. I didn't find 50, but I did find a good 25 last summer. I've been a little anxious and praying a lot about things going on lately. So it doesn't surprise me at all that I came across four 4 leaf clovers tonight at sunset. It's like a forehead kiss from him telling me everything is gonna be just fine.

Luke 4:10
10 For it is written: “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully;

Hebrews 13:2
2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.







Sunday, May 7, 2017

Scribble Scrabbles

"All art is but dirtying the paper delicately." ~John Ruskin


I love to draw and paint. I am not fantastic and have a lot to learn, but enjoy spending hours messing with a drawing until I have it the way I want. Here are a few things I have drawn this year.