I've Got the Joy Joy Joy Joy...

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."

Ephesians 3: 14-19

God has been revealing Himself to me in a new light that I have never seen before. Sometimes I wait for God to reveal Himself by doing something big and outstanding. I often look for something new that He will bless me with when, in reality, its the things that He has already done that show his sovereignty. He has blessed me in SO many ways. I can never comprehend the fullness of Him. To think that He surpasses all

knowledge that I could ever gain in a lifetime goes beyond what I can imagine, yet He still wants to bless my life-something that I don't praise Him for. He has filled me with this joy that is hard to describe. Its like peace, but it goes deeper beyond to point where I am grateful for even the difficult challenges that I face. It is a point where I realize that the reason I can celebrate through down times is because that is when I step out of the way and Gods strength shines. That is when the fullness of God is revealed. Only out of hardships and difficulties can this kind of joy come- thats the beauty of struggle.

"But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the mo

re gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong"

2 Corinthians 12: 9-10

Speaking of blessings... I got my airbrush today and I love it! Thank you mom and dad for the best birthday gift ever!!

Its Midterm Already??

Things have gone by so fast since I got here.

A couple people said that they would like to see what I have been working on, so here are a couple things. The only things I have pictures of are from my 2D design class.

This is the first project that I had. We had to do a study of leaves using only outline and conture lines.

I don't know if you can see it or not, but the water and background are made up of tiny little dots. This project took me about 55 hours all together because it was so time consuming to do all the points.

This was a fun one. We had to make our own stencil and then overlap the images.