The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: 2014

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2015

I wish my family and friends a Blessed New Year and I pray that you will have good health and happiness throughout 2015.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Will !!

No excuses. You must celebrate the birth of my cousin. And on what better night than New Year's Eve? The entire world will be celebrating!! I wish you happiness and good health, Will, today and throughout the New Year.

♥

Fire in the Sky

Outside my window last evening ~ the sunset looked like fire in the sky!

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Cemetery Visit

Casey and I went to the cemetery to visit Mom last week.

We stopped at this beautiful statue of Christ to say a prayer.

This deer we came upon, while leaving the cemetery, wanted no part of our visit and ran off as quick as he could.

Monday, December 29, 2014

Winter Sky

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Photo by Audrey

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church

My Parish Church this Christmas.

Beautiful live tree.

The Nativity.

Many beautiful poinsettia plants.

VERY Large Crucifix hanging at front center.

Angels above choir loft.

Mother Teresa.

This window is front center up at the ceiling.

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These are just a few of the many beautiful stained glass windows in the church. They add such a warm feeling and the pictures cause the viewer to reflect on the topic they depict. The church always has a special glow during the Christmas season.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Christmas Decor Around the Neighborhood

Biggest ornament I've ever seen.

Pretty good size, too.

Our City Tree.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Our 2014 Christmas Tree

Day After Christmas

Having Casey and Amanda here made Christmas week so much more special for me. After a wonderful Christmas Day, we spent Friday together visiting some of their favorite places in Roanoke. Being the Mexican food lovers that we are, we made our usual stop at Alejandro's Mexican Grill for lunch. They will be leaving early in the morning to head back to South Carolina and I will be a sad Mom to see them go.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Christmas 2014

Psalm 72:11 ~ "May all kings fall down before Him, all nations serve Him."

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I wish my family and friends All the Blessings of this Holy Day!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jesus !!

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Sweet Deer

I had to share this sweet photo compliments of Evolver Social Movement (A Health and Wellness Website) on facebook.

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.