PRAY WITHOUT CEASING

Unanswered yet the prayer your lips have pleaded

In agony of heart these many years?

Does faith begin to fail, is hope declining,

And think you all in vain those falling tears?

Say not the Father has not heard your prayer;

You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? tho' when you first presented

This one petition at the Father's throne,

It seemed you could not wait the time of asking,

So anxious was your heart to have it done;

If years have passed since then, do not despair,

For God will answer you sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? But you are not unheeded;

The promises of God forever stand;

To Him our days and years alike are equal;

Have faith in God! It is your Lord's command.

Hold on to Jacob's angel, and your prayer

Shall bring a blessing down sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say unanswered,

Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done,

The work began when first your prayer was uttered,

And God will finish what He has begun.

Keep incense burning at the shrine of prayer,

And glory shall decend sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered;

Her feet are firmly planted on the Rock;

Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted,

Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.

Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.

She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer,

And cries, "It shall be done sometime, somewhere."

~Ophelia Guyon Browning

Zentangles

This week in the Zentangle Society Group our theme was an Open Theme meaning it is open to your own interpretation.

Butterfly Delight

2.5 x 3.5

Peaceful Woods

A couple of cards I made for myself to represent the woods that surround us.

Size 2.5 x 3.5

and here is the other one......

Medium: Watercolor Paint
I also made three other wood scene drawings which I title Trinity Woods. I did those for the NorCal Swap that was being held over at ATCsforALL

ENTHUSIASM

ENTHUSIASM IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE

With renunciation life begins.

~Amelia Barr

As I grow older, 

part of my emothional survival plan

must be to actively seek inspiration 

instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

~Bebe Moore Campbell

Home Sweet Home

Challenge for this week is Home Sweet Home

Size 2.5 x 3.5

My version of Home Sweet Home.

For me Home Sweet Home is have the birds sing outside your door. The sweet smell of the flowers beauty all around your. Not to say having a dog or cat maybe a bird or two.

Inside the home is the beauty of a relationtion with family. Here I portray a child playing house with her little doll. 

Matrimony

Over on the Flickr site I participate in a group name Maggy Monday Musing. Each week they have a challenge that is due on Saturday. 

 

This challenge is on matrimony so this is my version of Matrimony not many of us pick the right mate the first time so for those of you that manage to stick it out it must be true love an ever lasting love!

SUCCESS

Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes,

Is oft but perserverance in disguise.

Continuous effort of itself implies,

In spite of countless falls, the power to rise.

'Twixt failure and success the print's so fine,

Men sometimes know not when they touch the line;

Just when the pearl is waiting one more plunge,

How many a struggler has thrown up the sponge!

As the tide goes clear out it comes clear in;

In business 'tis at turns, the wisest win;

And, oh, how true when shades of doubt disma,

"'Tis often darkest just before the day."

A little more persistence, courage, vim,

Success will dawn o'er failure's cloudy rim.

Then take this honey for the bitterest cup;

There is no failure, save in giving up.

No real fall, so long as one still tries,

For seeming set-backs make the strong man wise.

There's no defeat, in truth, save from within;

Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to win.

C.C. Cameron

I THINK THAT GOD IS PROUD

I think that God is proud of those who bear

A sorrow bravely-proud indeed of them

Who walk straight through the dark to find Him there,

And kneel in faith to touch his garment's hem.

Oh, proud of them who lift their heads to shake

Away the tears from eyes that have grown dim,

Who tighten quivering lips and turn to take

The only road they know that leads to Him.

How proud He must be of them-He who knows

All sorrow, and how hard grief is to bear!

I think He sees them coming, and He goes

With outstretched arms and hands to meet them there,

And with a look, a touch on hand or head,

Each finds his hurt heart strangely comforted.

Grace Noll Crowell

Zentangles

Aw Zentangles again.

ZENTANGLE with a TWIST

SOCIETY GROUP

This is a card that I made for this week challenge.

Theme: Fall Harvest

 

ATC

As I worked on these cards I just had to do one more.

Office Calls

 

This is my last card in this series. 

 

DOING WHAT'S RIGHT FOR US

We Must Do What's

Right For Us

The great thing to learn about life is,

first, not to do what you don't want

to do, and, second, to do what you

do want to do.

-Margaret Anderson

ATC

I had so much making atc using the theme Telephone Book I came up with this one.

MAY I MAKE AN APPOINTMENT

ATC

I belong to a group at the Flickr site. Each week they have a challenge. Well, I got confuse as to the due date so I ended up keeping this card. We were to make one card and the challenge theme was 

TELEPHONE BOOK

This is the card I made for the challenge

I SAW TWO CLOUDS AT MORNING

I saw two clouds at morning,

Tinged with the rising sun,

And in the dawn they floated on,

And mingled into one:

I thought that morning clound was blest,

It moved so sweetly to the west.

I saw two summer currents

Flow smoothly to their meeting,

And join their course, with silent force,

In peace each other greeting:

Calm was their course through banks of green,

While dimpling eddies played between.

Such be your gentle motion,

Till life's last pulse shall beat;

Like summer's beam, and summer's stream,

Float on, in joy, to meet

A calmer sea, where storms shall cease-

A purer sky, where all is peace.

John Gardiner Brainard

FAITH FOR TOMORROW

"Tomorrow, friend, will be another day,"

A seer wise of old was won't to say

To him who came at eventide, in grief,

Because the day had borne no fruitful sheaf.

O Lord of Life, that each of us might learn

From vain todays and yesterdays to turn,

To face the future with a hope newborn

That what we hope for cometh with the morn!

Thomas Curtis Clark

Zentangles

Well now, here are the cards that I turn in to swap over at ATCsforALL 

Zentangle Black n White plus 1 Color

Will what do ya think?

Like them?

I even made one for the Host which I don't do often I knew CattyCat would really like this one and I was right I gave her the choice to pick and she picked this one.

 

It was hard to let this one go too. I sure love those Zentangle in my day we called it Doodling now it has become an art form.

Zentangles

Zentangles Black n White plus 1 Color

A swap over at ATCsfor ALL

I like these so well that I kept these for myself. Now I need to make more cards for the actual swap.

I love doodling so much that I actually started a society group over at ATCsforALL the name of the group is called 

ZENTANGLE with a TWIST

a few ladies have join we are having a blast!

OUR FAITH AND BELIEF CREATE OUR REALITY

Positive Thinking and Self-Fulfilling

Prophecies and Actions 

Beauty to me is being 

comfortable in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

The Little Book Challenge Swap

Now the book is completely finish. Remember the first and last page go back and check it out the finish product sure changes the look!

 

Oh heck!

Here the finish back view too.....

The Little Book Challenge Swap

This is the last tow pages in the book. 

 

My favorites the page on the left is about reading being a book warm. The little girl I drew then the page on the right 2 vintage clip art with wording underneath about friends.