Pity Party

By the inspiration of your Holy Spirit

Green Pencil Self-Portrait

Art Journalling

I was perusing art journals on Pinterest when I stumbled upon Junelle Jacobsen's blog "Yes and Amen." It is full of beautiful photos and beautiful journal pages. Among her ramblings, I discovered an entry where she took a Beth Moore book and gessoed all the
pages and art journalled on them. I love book pages and the idea of
having words as the background to all my pages sounded lovely, so I picked up a small hardcover book by a little known poet and began to create.

Ball Jar

Thank you for the craft shop

Crumple

Peace

I'm emotionally worn out

Scattering

(photo credit: Bethany Ludens)

Why is the sky blue?

Rayleigh Scattering describes how light hits the atmosphere and scatters inelastically, bouncing off itself and other molecules. Light with the shortest wavelengths, blue, collides with the molecules of the atmosphere more because of its rapid oscillation and therefore is scattered the most. The rest of the light falls to Earth, but we see the scattered blue light.

Similarly, when the sun is setting, the light must travel through a greater amount of atmosphere to reach us because of its angle. By the time it reaches our eyes, even the low frequency wavelengths have been scattered and we see the orange and red light.

Fifteen: Feng Shui

I rewarded myself for finishing my organic chemistry midterm by getting a library card and checking out two books on feng shui. Did you know that clutter makes you hold onto the past? If you're having trouble letting go of the junk in your house, try writing a list of your future goals; it will help you move on.

Postcards

A heart isn't a faucet

Thirteen: Stop

If there's anything that I took from high school relationships (or lack there of), it's that your heart isn't a faucet. You can't just turn it off with a quick flick of the wrist. You can't suddenly decide to stop caring about someone. And I think that's a good thing.

Lost

Sometimes
when
you
lose
things,
you
can't
get
them
back.

Space

Nine: Purgatory

"Space" in a relationship is Purgatory. It's waiting for judgment day in the fire of your own thoughts, hoping others are interceding for you.

Closed Communications

Gratitude