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Easter production question--help!
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Dealing with Very Bad News
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- Hometown:
- Accident, Md
- About Me:
- Major interests in life: becoming more Christlike, oil painting (particularly portraits in oil, which I do professionally) reading, learning, family, kindred spirits, movies (big LotR fan--long before the movies came out)
- How long have you been at the RIDGE? or another church? or what is your level of spiritual interest?
- Visiting off and on for several months;I've attended a Mennonite church since I was born
- Favorite Music:
- celtic of all sorts, Waterdeep, Over the Rhine, Beethoven
- Where are you serving in the church?
- visitor
- To which small group do you belong?
- none--yet!
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Posted on July 25, 2007 at 8:09am —
Muscular Dystrophy
I recently found out that there is a good chance that I have a slowly progressive form of muscular dystrophy. It is a little scary because my shoulders and arms (especially my right arm) seem to be getting more numb, and I'm experiencing weakness in both arms, and pain in the right arm. It is more concerning to me because I paint with my right hand. I just have to take it one day at a time, and the next step is getting tested for it. My mom has so many of the symptoms, and my aunt just got a
… ContinuePosted on June 10, 2007 at 11:07am — 2 Comments
Dealing with VERY BAD NEWS
How does one truly cope when a dear friend has been diagnosed with a bad form of cancer? I can think of a lot of things some very wise people have told me in the past about giving things over to God and having peace, but this is the first time that someone so close is going to go through something so horrendous. Someone told me they were excited to see what God will do. I am not excited. The person who told me this didn't even mean "have enough faith and all will be well." I don't believe tha
… ContinuePosted on June 2, 2007 at 1:40pm —
Balancing art with other job
I have a bit of a problem, a concern. I know I am to use my painting skills for commissions, and to do works that glorify God (I hope that both kinds do). I also work part time (receptionist/secretary) for a psychiatrist. There's been some shifting at work and I don't know if it will mean more/less hours for me or not.
If I am at home all the time, I can spend countless hours dreaming. Dreaming of some philisophical thing, or dreaming of one of about 20 paintings I have in my head. Thi
… ContinuePosted on May 20, 2007 at 10:35am —
Upcoming Artworks
It has been a wonderful experience being a part of the Unexpected art show. If nothing else, I met the coolest person, Sara Hale, who is a musician, through it.
The painting Clinical Depression No. 1 is the first in a series I am doing on what it feels like to have clinical depression. I plan on doing 4 or 5, because there are so many facets to it.
I have been working on a series about musicians for years now, and have painted a fiddler, and a bagpipe player thus far. The next o
… ContinuePosted on May 15, 2007 at 1:15pm — 2 Comments
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It took me awhile to figure out that you answered on here. I'm so glad that you've found a nitch at CRC with Genesis Arts!
Oops, I forgot to comment on Genesis. This last time they had us get into groups, and brainstorm about ideas that could be used for the upcoming series on 1 Corinthians 13. Most of the ideas came from ways of using music and video. I was in a group with one cool guy, Bruce, and he is a writer, so we went from that angle instead of thinking of the overall skits, video, etc. It was interesting. I knew it wouldn't be focused on the visual arts; Trey told me that most of the interest stems from writing at this point. I'm not sure when I'll go next--those gas prices are a killer! There is a Bible study once in awhile that the very cool Sara Hale has invited me to come to, and I might give that a shot for now.
I look forward to the day when visual arts will be more a part of Genesis, and I know that's something they want to include more. By the evidence of the number of ppl that were represented at the Unexpected show, I hope there will be more in attendance at the meetings after a bit. Guess I'm up in the air about it right now, though it would be great to meet more artists of different kinds. They were going to do a jam session with guitars after we were done with the meeting, which I thought was really cool.
What I'd like to do is go to the meetings at that cafe that have readings and such that was mentioned somewhere on the site. There are just too many cool things that CRC does that I am starving for! :o)
thanks for the comments on my page. THe church that I come from used to be fairly conservative (dresses or skirts all the time, no cut hair, wore a covering or veil, no jewelry, etc) but not as conservative as some (some women only wear their hair up and have very conservative, almost uniform clothing, and some of the very conservative still use horse and buggy (not many of those). Mennonites range of 'conservativeness' is pretty vast. Our church has changed over the years, as ppl have challenged long held traditions, and truly looked to the Word for guidance. At our church now, you would still find those wearing a veiling of some kind, some will still wear only skirts or dresses and don't have their hair cut (my mother is like this--wearing jeans occasionally) but the majority of 'us' look like any other ppl you'd see walking down the street.
The anabaptist beliefs are still part of our way of thinking though--no infant baptism, consciencious objector status (though that is questioned by some) and other general beliefs held by anabaptist group.
I'm glad you got to vist a Mennonite group in Ohio. Thre are quite a few Amish and Mennonite groups in Ohio.
Thanks for your support for the Unexpected show. I think they did a terrific job, and really support them doing it again. It's a LOT of work. I used to help with a big show around here, and I know how time and energy consuming it is.
It's part of the painting ....of pink roses that I told you about.
Just wanted to say that I am so happy that your profile pic is now a picture of you and part of one of your paintings. Bravo!
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