Meditations with Kelsey

Meditations with Kelsey, entry #1

“Cultivate a way of looking with your spirit. Training your spirit is more important than defeating an opponent.” “You see only with your eyes…” …Become still, like water… “Being still and doing nothing are two very different things.”

Meditations with Kelsey, entry #2

A quote from a Kendo artist: “Your sword is your mind; only those who have attained a supreme level of technique, experience and character are awarded…” the highest level of swordsmanship. In Japan, only after you have held the next to highest level of swordsmanship for 10 years and are still studying are you eligible to test for the highest level in Kendo. This made me think of the pursuit of violin. It takes years to master anything well. Your violin must be your mind—whatever your mind thinks comes out in your instrument, an extension of your very thoughts, feelings, emotions.

Meditations with Kelsey, entry #3

Da Da Dadadada Da Da Circus

Da Da Dadadada Da Da Afro

Circus Afro Circus Afro

Poke-a-dot pok-a-dot pok-a-dot AFRO!!!

Just a reminder to live life full of color! Live life with abandon!! 

(I couldn't figure out how to flip the picture...so deal with the neck cramp)

Meditations with Kelsey, entry #4

“Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.  “

                     ~A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Yes, I am the same person but oh! so very different. Perhaps the more different you become, the more the sameness is retained; maybe some changes enhance the continuity.

 Meditations with Kelsey, entry #5

Sometimes the answer is in the question; the solution is in the problem. You may find the answers by asking the questions; you may solve the problem by living it.

Meditations with Kelsey, entry #6

“The more joy I find through my art, the more liberated the genius who accompanies me becomes. Take darkness, for example, when it surrounds you, you are completely lost but when a light is illuminated it literally creates a way.” ~Wilner Lemite, Haitian Woodworking artisan

When your work is a joy, you improve and spread joy to those around you; when your work is a task, it becomes a burden to yourself and everyone else.

Meditations with Kelsey, entry #7

This is the miracle of abiding in Jesus, being connected to Him, being in and with Him, my source of Life:

Luke 6:12-19

“It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God. And when day came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as apostles . . . Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were being cured. And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.”

This is true for me just as it was true for Jesus, for He has given us the same relationship with God—we are adopted as sons and fellow heirs with Christ! So when I spend time in God, in prayer with Him, I become as Jesus was—power flowing from me to heal others.