Entering the New and Unknown with Calendar, Stencils...
Every time I make a new calendar page, I'm reminded that each new day, week, and month are to be lived moment by moment. These moments are often filled with surprises and feelings that cannot be described in words. This is one reason I make art. Georgia O'Keefe said it well when she said:
"I found I could say things with color and shapesthat I couldn't say any other way -things I had no words for."
With all the New and Unknown these days, I appreciate the challenge, posed by Bernice Hopper, in our Living Your Word of the Year Facebook group for May. For each day in May, I doodled something about my day, usually my internal feeling, and sometimes symbols for an event. It was a very doable and satisfying activity.
Sometimes our heart knows things ahead of our experience. The calendar and journal pages in this post were made and written in April through the first week of May. With what is going on in the world now, including my home city of Portland, Oregon, the messages and prayers are more relevant than ever.
"Deliver us, Lord, from every evil and grant us peace in our day."
~ from Celtic Daily Prayer, p. 159
These new stencils, June 2020 stencil set for StencilGirl Products® Stencil Club, gave me the opportunity to creatively express my hope and concerns. There are so many cool possibilities with them and I'm excited to share them with you. Here are some of my journal pages:
New Stencils! Stencil Club Mash-up with Mary Beth Shaw!
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
~ Mother Teresa
Here is a video of Mary Beth Shaw and I introducing the Stencils:
"I pray that the power of God's Spirit will fill your heart with hope, peace, and joy,
no matter what's going on in your life right now.
May you have faith thatHe is working everything out."
from: https://8-images.blogspot.com/
Looking forward with hope!
Making my June calendar last night brought a new measure of hope and faith. After a dinner and talking around the fire pit with loved ones, I am comforted that I am not alone, and there really are a lot of good people loving one another. Life is good!
