I look at other blogs and i think to myself "What a wonderful world it would be if i could only do those things."
I find myself becoming envious of other peoples talents and abilities to produce wonderful works of art, whether it be great photo taking capabilities, or painting/drawing, or artful writing like Vanessa's my heart longs and aches for those artistic skills that i know lay hidden down inside of me. It is hard though to develop picture taking skills when i don't have a camera, and well it is hard for me to develop art skills when the most i can draw is a stick man. I think i have improved on my writing abilities and yet i highly doubt i have moved people to tears with poetic skills, especially when i am full of grammar and spelling mistakes. So, i have then tried to move along to music...and again i am faced with a dilema how do i develop those abilities, when i do not have the resources of learning to play a musical instrument such as a guitar or piano. Yes, i do sing a little but even then there isn't many people longing to hear my child like voice. I don't even have the physical beauty that just takes a man's breath away.
So, i sit here and i sigh wondering what special abilities that i have...how do i touch others..and how do i come to be content with what little artistic capabilities that i have. How do i admire without being full of envy and and times jealosy?
I guess it is a delicate balance we all seem to long for what another has, the grass is greener on the otherside..so how do i stay on my side of the fence and not get caught up in dreaming about the others side. How do i continually fight this battle of the beautifuls...and how do i continually look at what God has given me and praise him for that...better yet, how do i look at what God has given someone else and praise him for what he has not given me?
3 comments:
Sara, you may not see it, but I see something incredibly beautiful and artistic in you. You have a gift of making a "story", an "adventure" out of life. You take something simple (like a little road trip), and you make it something epic. I believe only an artist can do that. Only an artist can make something special, unique, funny, beautiful out of something quite ordinary.
Also, it takes an artist to see and love people that the world categorizes as strange or annoying or unlovely. You do this without a second thought. It's amazing!
Also, you have one of the most beautiful laughs I've ever heard in my life. It just glows with this soft, gentle sweetness...not many people have a laugh like that. I believe your laugh is like a "microphone" to your heart and your soul. I can hear faith and love in your laugh. (And, yes, I would love to have a laugh like yours!)
That was really sweet thanks so much...
I cannot imagine a world without Sara. It would be missing a cheerful sunflower; a flower that grew up beautifully out the most unlikely cracks between the cement, who always turns her face to the Son.
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