Vision: Let's Color

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Let's Color

Who said Crayola is just for kids huh? About a week ago we were all sitting at the table coloring as a family and I decided to draw and color Esther. I definitely would not call myself an artist by any stretch of the matter but lets just say I had a lot of fun and found myself completely happy and at peace drawing and coloring my kids. I know I feel like 5yrs. old, the fact that I love to color and paint. When I was done with Esther's drawing Mark looked at my paper and said "Juanita I think you should draw and color Eve" With that eye trying to relay a message telepathically like my daughter Eve wanted to feel special to. Except at that moment I was extremely tired that I didn't think I would be able to draw another picture at least a decent one that would make my other little girl feel special or pretty. So I said a sincere heartfelt silent prayer in my head asking Heavenly Father to help me draw my little Eve and make her feel beautiful as she is, and He heard my

PRAYER!

1st drawing

Esther

2nd drawing

Eve

I believe that Heavenly Father answers the littlest of prayers especially when they benefit others and not ourselves. The next day I drew my baby Asenath below. Except she doesn't look like a baby in this picture. I need to practice more.

3rd drawing

Asenath

Drawing & coloring are fun ways I interact with my girls, usually everyone is happy when we do it. I find it helps if I play uplifting and inspiring music in the background. I feel so relaxed and at peace. I'm currently working on a tree. We'll see how long it takes me to get it done. Anyhow draw & color away beautiful world!

1 comment:

Sally Jackson said...: I love this post. I love that you find fun, relaxing ways to interact with your girls. Those drawings are so sweet, and show your sincere love for them!; September 27, 2012 at 2:03 AM

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Juanita's Conversion Story

I feel that Heavenly Father has blessed me with the desire to play softball. The fact that the Lord was guiding me to play softball became more evident to me when I was offered a scholarship to play ball at BYU-Hawaii. The thought of attending BYU-Hawaii just seemed right and good at the time so I attended college there. My first year in college I was so excited to learn, play, and party. I discovered real soon that the students who attended the university had fun without drinking. I also discovered that the people were faithful and they had a strong sense of purpose and Identity. This compelled me to go on a spiritual search. I decided to take the lessons from the missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As I took the lessons I was taught things that I heard before and things that were new to me. Such as the Book of Mormon and the prophet Joseph Smith. These were things that were a challenge for me to believe. So I took these challenges up to the Lord and I asked him if the Book of Mormon is the word of God and if Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God. I'm so delighted to share with you that I do know that the Book of Mormon is true and that the Prophet Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God. I know that it's true because of the power of the Holy Spirit, because of these truths and much more I decided to be baptized and serve the Lord. Getting baptized was the best decision I ever made. It's because of this choice that I enjoy the blessing of life today. The church is true and I find myself indebt to the Lord forever.