Peace and Love

 Good day!  ¡Buen Día!   It's such a blessing to be able to blog again this weekend, as it's been a hectic week for me.

Sunday Postcard - Peace
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist Lots of Leaves
WOYWW 850/70

For my first featured project this week, I have a postcard I made today.  I was inspired by a verse in Paul's letter to the Romans 12:18, which reads, " If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with everyone."  I used a Zig Letter Pen Cocoiro, Mont Marte Real Brush Pens, and Faber-Castell Gelatos for the lettering and doodling on a Kraft postcard.

Alphabet Challenge Blog - L is for Love Letters With Hearts
Polkadoodles - Challenge 10, Week 4, Anything Goes

For my second project this week, is a card I made for my wife's and my 34th Wedding Anniversary.  Using acrylic markers, I doodled a couple dancing around in a heart shaped wooden cutout tag.  Then, I strung it, added a bow, and attached it to a striped print background.  This was all nicely framed by my card.

Friday Face Off 9/19/25
We Love 2 Create - Challenge 9 Anything Goes

For my third project this week, I have a mixed media collage.  I incorporated a Japanese portrait I painted on Sumi paper using red Sumi paint.  I added an origami fish I made, a hand stamped image, and the print from a hand carved stamp I did with my last name in Katakana.  I finished my collage by writing the words A Un, derived from Sanskirit, meaning "the beginning and the end," using a Funcils Black Oil Paint Pen.

In closing, I'd like to leave you with the closing paragraph of my sermon this week, which was based on Luke 16:1-13:

The accounting of our management isn’t about numbers, wrongdoings, or punishment, but about helping us examine, make amends, and redirect our lives for the good of ourselves and others.  It opens us to new possibilities. It guides us to becoming whom God created us to be.  It points us to eternal life.  So let’s “Give God an accounting of our management.” What are we doing with our lives?  Who are we serving?  Whom are you hurting?  “We cannot serve God and wealth.”   So let’s not be anxious about earthly things, but love things heavenly.  

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