A friend tells me "I don't feel like painting." I replied, too bad - paint anyway!
I know she is bummed/depressed.. overwhelmed. Paint through it! You'll feel better. Charles Schultz taught me that.
I recommend she read the book below. I get it though and it's been decades of pain and painting through it that helped me. There have been numerous times I wanted to give up - especially as I watched my hands deform to the point it's painful to hold a brush - oh well - paint through it! I paint daily - the card above I painted when I did not want to paint - it's no masterpiece but it's a cute Christmas card that was blank only minutes before.
I too have had a difficult week- someone I know is very near death, he had a major cancer surgery then the next thing I heard they wanted him in again (hardly weeks passed and he was not healed from the first surgery) this time brain cancer. it did not go well - his brain swelled from the surgery and he has not been the same since, as a matter of fact - from the first surgery he was feeling better & hopeful - then they did the brain and he's gone down hill so fast - it makes me fucking angry. I tried to tell them "no.. don't let them.. take a break." But he did not listen and I understand, he was/is afraid. People forget , especially in Canada - because we dont' pay - hospitals, surgeries & Dr.s are a business. I feel the Dr.s used him to make money before he died - three surgeries and multiple tests later - he's now dying. His treatment while in hospital was so poor he checked himself out.
Today I read about a Dr. who died - fact: not from his cancer but the MEDICINE killed him. He was a Dr., his brothers are Dr.s and they had no clue. I guess NOT - Cancer is a BILLION dollar business. I have known about cancer medications for a while and have read about many times when patients have died. I have read stories of Dr.s who would not let family go through cancer treatments'. Others I have known, who do take cancer medicine, usually end up dying soon after (less than 5 years) and the quality of their lives diminishes rapidly, after medication. How does this continue. The odds of dying from the medicine are greater than most realize.
There's a conspiracy theory, if you create the cure for cancer- you'll be killed - Cancer is big business. So is cancer medicine. I don't know what to tell anyone under the situation but PLEASE do your research.
Look after your temple that houses Jesus. Perhaps if we think of it that way - we will treat our bodies better.
Put your trust in God first. I know it is easier said than done, especially when feeling very sick.
So... no, I don't really feel like painting either -but I do. Thank God for the privilege of another day to create & be joyful. Painting makes me joyful. Storm shared a post that said: Be grateful for 'nothing!
Be grateful we are not in a war torn country, we are not homeless from devastation like fires and floods, we are not forced from our homeland in search of a better life... give thanks for 'nothing.
created to create
I know she is bummed/depressed.. overwhelmed. Paint through it! You'll feel better. Charles Schultz taught me that.
I recommend she read the book below. I get it though and it's been decades of pain and painting through it that helped me. There have been numerous times I wanted to give up - especially as I watched my hands deform to the point it's painful to hold a brush - oh well - paint through it! I paint daily - the card above I painted when I did not want to paint - it's no masterpiece but it's a cute Christmas card that was blank only minutes before.
I too have had a difficult week- someone I know is very near death, he had a major cancer surgery then the next thing I heard they wanted him in again (hardly weeks passed and he was not healed from the first surgery) this time brain cancer. it did not go well - his brain swelled from the surgery and he has not been the same since, as a matter of fact - from the first surgery he was feeling better & hopeful - then they did the brain and he's gone down hill so fast - it makes me fucking angry. I tried to tell them "no.. don't let them.. take a break." But he did not listen and I understand, he was/is afraid. People forget , especially in Canada - because we dont' pay - hospitals, surgeries & Dr.s are a business. I feel the Dr.s used him to make money before he died - three surgeries and multiple tests later - he's now dying. His treatment while in hospital was so poor he checked himself out.
Today I read about a Dr. who died - fact: not from his cancer but the MEDICINE killed him. He was a Dr., his brothers are Dr.s and they had no clue. I guess NOT - Cancer is a BILLION dollar business. I have known about cancer medications for a while and have read about many times when patients have died. I have read stories of Dr.s who would not let family go through cancer treatments'. Others I have known, who do take cancer medicine, usually end up dying soon after (less than 5 years) and the quality of their lives diminishes rapidly, after medication. How does this continue. The odds of dying from the medicine are greater than most realize.
There's a conspiracy theory, if you create the cure for cancer- you'll be killed - Cancer is big business. So is cancer medicine. I don't know what to tell anyone under the situation but PLEASE do your research.
Look after your temple that houses Jesus. Perhaps if we think of it that way - we will treat our bodies better.
Put your trust in God first. I know it is easier said than done, especially when feeling very sick.
So... no, I don't really feel like painting either -but I do. Thank God for the privilege of another day to create & be joyful. Painting makes me joyful. Storm shared a post that said: Be grateful for 'nothing!
Be grateful we are not in a war torn country, we are not homeless from devastation like fires and floods, we are not forced from our homeland in search of a better life... give thanks for 'nothing.
created to create
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