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Expertise: "Come sing about Love, that caused us first to be, come sing about Love, that made the stone and tree, come sing about Love....... that draws us Lovingly..."
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
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Member Since:
5/24/2005
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| art classes march 2009 WED-4:30-5:30 GOD AND THE HISTORY OF ART PAINTING AND MIXING COLORS AGES 12-16 in that class right now-all ages accepted WED-7:30-9:00PM ADULT STUDIO ART all media permissible students work on individual projects ages teen-adult FRI 11:00-12:00 PRESCHOOL ART ages 4-6ish all ages permitted art bases on a theme no students in this class at this time, but if there is interest i will start it up again. FRI 1:00-2:00 WATERCOLOR PAINTING learning to mix and paint with watercolor paint AGES 5-11 in this class right now but class is catered to the older students--all ages accepted FRI 2:00-3:00 WATERCOLOR PAINTING same as above same age group as above ART CLASSES $7.50 per class or $30 per month/student $60 per family Other Classes THURS 3:00-4:30--Classical Kids all age students are welcome to come and get a taste of some famous classical music, opera or literature great class for all the children in one family to join together! Emphasis will be on making the subject matter FUN and memorable for the students. Art work, acting it out, singing it, watching parts of it on video will all be possibilities depending on the theme. I love this and think it is fun and amazingly great and i will convey my love for it to the students!! All subject matter will be kid-friendly, discussing any questionable themes as lightly as possible or just skipping it over completely. (After all, this isn't an in depth college course.) sign up for one or all 4 classes $7 per class or $20 per family or $20 per student for all 4 classes or $60 per family for all four classes march 5-HAMLET march 12-AIDA (opera) march 19-BACH march 26-YO YO MA (contemporary cello) | | |
| unrelenting love
so i'm reading this awesome book by Brennan Manning entitled
"the wisdom of tenderness"
and it's so great.
it just feels like 'yes'
in the life i'm leading these days, i feel like i'm the odd man out.
i'm confused.
i feel like Christians are all around me and no one understands me.
the more i understand Jesus, the less Christians understand me.
it's weird.
i guess it doesn't matter who understands me, really.
except for Carlos... at least he gets me.
here's the truth that is sitting so deep in my soul that it fits in tight:
i've been forgiven of so much.
i know how far i can fall.
i have accepted tenderness from God and others.
really accepted it.
so, i have no choice but to respond by accepting others--
in their current state of weakness.
And showing them tenderness.
i can't help but see their potential for good, potential for more,potential for being a follower of Christ.
or if they are a follower of Christ already, and yet in sin,or yet,annoying in many ways, (which we all are)
i can't help but realize that i'm all those things, too,
plenty of times.
no matter who you are, i pretty much understand and try, at least, to love you.
where you are
now.
with no change, yet.
or ever, even.
(it's up to the Holy Spirit to change you-that's not my job)
But that's not a popular stance. This is the part that other Christians don't "get" about me.
but in "the sheep and the goats" part of matthew
i can see it clearly stated that ALL PEOPLE have Christ in them.
So, to me, ALL PEOPLE, are precious.
in their current state.
worthy of love. -sincere love.
worthy of value.-high value.
worthy of a hug.-a real one.
worthy of a smile that lights up when they show up.-because i'm happy to see them.
worthy of a ride.-practical help.
worthy of a dinner made specially for them.
worthy of time taken to discuss their life.
all people.
to me, that includes
everyone.
no picking and choosing.
how can Christians have trouble understanding that?
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| groundhog day has come
this week is tech week for my daughter's play. The play starts on thursday.
we've been rehearsing the play for so long. We are finally at the real stage and practicing. There are 3 casts and so each cast has to practice again and again. The parents are expected to stay and do their jobs.. the jobs they have for the actual night of the play. My job is to sell flowers... amazing wooden flowers. The flowers are not here yet. When they get here i will have to recruit some other moms to help me attach some foliage to each flower and place a tag with the name of the play on each flower, but for now, since i'm not in the dressing room or backstage, and the set is pretty much done, i just sit and watch.
as i was walking in last nite, with both my kids with me, another mom was walking in too and i said to her "are you ready?!--here we go again!" and she said "i swear this is like "ground hog day"
omg, i was cracking up so hard, i laughed out loud. The entire thing really does seem like ground hog day. Each time we enter vorhees highschool, it's like a time warp.. here we go again..same play, same snack time, same announcements, same everything.
The parents are getting overtired i think because we're all making ridiculous jokes now. The groundhog day comment kept making me laugh while i watched the play in a silent theater. I said to my son, "i have to start thinking of something very sad or i'm going to keep laughing at inappropriate places"
but really the comment is so funny to me, still that i can't even think of something sad enough to stop me.
oh well.
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and yesterday, i made a plan to help my friend decorate her store for Christmas and re merchandise it a bit. I'm very excited about that plan. I spent last nite drawing a map of the store and looking at pictures i shot in the store to see what we have to work with. My husband has a background in retail too, so we're both going to help. But we have to wait until our daughter's play is over, and that will only give us one week, basically to get it done before thanksgiving. We have to be done by thanksgiving, b/c the day after thanksgiving is generally the day where stores are totally decorated up for the holidays. So that's an exciting thing in my life these days, i loved being a merchant... so that prospect is exciting, although, i'm sure it's a huge job and will take a ton of time. Changing merchandise around is always so messy.
but we're excited.
shalom,
margaret
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| come sing about love
we can love difficult people because God first loved us while we were still sinners.
we can find the strength to love all people when we remember that God loves us even when we are difficult, self centered, selfish, or even just not communicating with Him at all.
people do that to us all the time.
we do that to God all the time.
what's the difference?
the difference is that God can take it because He IS love. Love is not a thing He does.. it's a thing He IS. it's part of His DNA.
And us?
haha
we love from a place of our flesh--we sometimes try to love people out of our own capacity to love. Some people are easy to do that with. Those are the people that we have common interests with--people we love being with--people we laugh at 3am with about nothing.
but then, in walks the people that God brings into our life, that are not that easy to love. People who push their way into a spot in our hearts and homes that we're not ready to offer to them.... People who are just abrasive....People who don't think like us and like to argue.
Sometimes the people who are easy to love can change into the people who are most difficult to love, usually because when i let them in far, they can hurt me from the inside, which is way worse.
but here's the thing...
we deal with them both the same.
we should love because God first loved us
in our weakness
in our sin
in our difficultness
when we don't talk to Him
when we complain to Him
when we use and abuse Him and expect Him to still be there
His love for us does not stop.
and so..
that's the powerful love we can draw from when love gets difficult.
and really, the most powerful thing we can do for a person is pray for them, and if people are in our lives and leave, it's still possible to do that...even to the same great extent as before. That's the beauty of God's world.
nothing really changes.
nothing important, anyway.
it's just hard for me to adjust to it, because i never take people lightly and i always want people to explain themselves to me, so i can fix it.
sometimes that's not possible.
but it's always possible to pray.
for them
and for myself.
so.. onward.
marg
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| okay, what does THIS mean?
This week, it has come to my attention that i crave routine.
By "come to my attention" i mean i realized it myself.
So weird.
i have always thought of myself as a person who goes with the flow and doesn't care if there's a routine or not.
In my head, i'm the person who can change plans at the last minute, have people over without tons of notice, (any notice) do school with my kids or skip a whole day and not really get stressed out.
In my head, that's me.
And i think it still is me.
BUT
This week, i had a fleeting thought that i'd like to have a certain day of the week that i always did the same thing.
I forget what it was exactly, but i think it was something to do with cleaning the house. Like for instance, i would love to have a certain day of the week that i always wash the towels. (that might have been it actually)
Then i started thinking that i always crave routine like that. In the past, i always wanted to plan my dinners like that..ie:
monday we have pasta, tuesday we have hot dogs, wed we have soup, thurs we have pizza, friday we have chicken, etc etc..
my kids HATE THAT IDEA WITH A PASSION.
but to me that would be a delightful dream of a wonderful way to live. "oh look today it's wed, let's clean the bathroom and make hamburgers"
if you KNOW ME... you know HOW VERY OFF that seems to my personality..so i started thinking.. is it off?
or am i really controlled and craving organization and inflexible deep down?
no, my conclusion is that i am flexible but i have some weirdo idea that in order to be "right"or "perfect" or a "good mom" or "good wife" i need to have some sort of system and that my "take everyday as it comes" way of life is not good enough.
so...that was a rude awakening.
i'm mean to myself in my head.
how stupid is that?!
-marg-
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