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.
