What do you think about gifts? Are they given or received? Did you find them or did you always have them? Where do your gifts begin or end? Do you have the gift of gab or were you gifted with beauty or a brush stroke or song? Did you come easy to it or did God drag you kicking and screaming to find it? Or, were you to ever strive to be where you should be? Your heart was fulfilled to a point of bliss or the wonder of peace has brought you happiness. Are they combined with your dreams – what you wanted in your life? Maybe you’re young and your future is all yours to find and the gifts you have are in the making. But at this Christmas time, giving gifts is one thing in and of itself. Giving of one self is like God giving His Gift to us. With His Love like our love giving to another, it’s the giving of love. Sometimes, it is our gifts to each other that will make each of our lives as neighbors and family fulfilled with the joy of Life and Love of God that He blesses us with. Throughout our lives we are filled with the bombardment of man’s bad choices of free will, my self included. Never leaving my faith in God or finding my way forward, at times, seems virtually impossible to do.
Prayer, faith, and, forgiveness are important in my life. At times, I have had trouble forgiving myself for my imperfections. I have been beating my self up and not feeling worthy of love and forgiveness. It was prayer that pulled me through. It is the time we should pray the hardest and the longest.
We should set ourselves free from the anguish so God can remove our imperfections. It allows His Love to shine through us creating a gateway to our gifts with no roadblocks ahead of us. We all have these abilities to seek the things of God to strive for the life in which we search for but we let mans world and our freedom of choices prevent us from seeing Gods will.
I am thankful my blessings and the ability to share them with others. It is what Christmas is to my life. May you find the Love of God and the gifts given to you to share with in your own lives. Merry Christmas!
Twilight Swell
Thank you for appreciating my art. Merry Christmas to all. Inspired by a Doheny State Beach southwest swell. Peace to all.
God's Beauty
About Me
- bubblepacific
- Born in Monterey Park, California, I grew up in Duarte and have lived virtually everywhere in Southern California following the glazing trade. After 30 years of glazing - glass work - I retired to do what I dreamed of doing my whole life. Now as an artist hardly selling one piece a month I continue to be from what I can see, the happiest man on the planet. My needs are few. My faith is enormous. The love and understanding that I have of my fellow man has improved greatly since being retired from glazing, having the happiest time of my life. I sit at the beach everyday either meditating, painting, stretching a frame, riding a bike, walking the dog, occasionally writing madness on my computer until I get a lightbulb of inspiration coming into my head and then its bottle, brush, and spatula to the canvas time. I love hooking up with my newly found family of bloggers. Don't like facebook, flying pillows, not enough space for longwinded me. So here I am on my blog being full of hot air as usual.
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