Quality paint brushes are a must for any painter. Brush care is also of the utmost importance. There is just no way you can create high quality works of art when hairs are frazzled, frayed, and falling out. You will find yourself creating more of a mess trying to compensate for these issues. It robs you of your joy of painting in the moment because you are too busy looking for lost hairs or checking to see if the frazzled hairs have placed paint where you do not wish. You find yourself distracted and unable to focus on what is truly important. All of which can be avoided if you just make the right choices!
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed- or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her." Luke 10:38-42
Oh Martha, how I connect with you and your ways! I wish I was a Mary, but I am not. I find myself running around in a tizzy...frazzled and frayed by all that life has placed on my plate(or that I have placed on my own plate!). I can be so busy with "life" that I miss opportunities for what God REALLY wants for me. I'm too distracted to see moments to sit at the feet of my Lord. I'm too worried about things that don't really matter, and miss God given opportunities to speak truth, peace, love...JESUS...into othes' lives. I'm too consumed with trying to make things perfect that I miss the beauty in the imperfections. Lord, help me not to be a Martha(at least not all the time)...and let me be more like Mary & make the better choice.
Ha! Maybe all of us who teach art are Marthas. When I think of making a painting with a big broad sized brush, and not a detail brush, then things progress in bigger sweeping steps, without tripping over the details. Some days anyway.
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