The Challenge is on...

Finding your passion is one of the greatest journeys in life.  For some, they have a very strong sense of what that is as a child.  For others, it is something that becomes clearer with time as life is experienced. For me, I have been passionate about so many things through the years but most have been within the realm of the creative.  I don't know why, I just love to create.  Be it, music, song, photography, graphic arts or poetry, I just love being able to get a picture or an impression of life and to transform that into something that others can admire and consider.

So it is with delight that I was referred to RedBubble.com, a site for artists.  And on that site I found so much to inspire me in my photography and my artwork, that I have been on a bit of a creative bender to work out how others have achieved what they have achieved.The colours, the images, the textures...all of these layers of creating are important and to see them clearly is just an amazing journey.

And I liken this experience to life.  If we examine life, layer by layer, identifying the things that are important in our daily interactions - our heart, our spirit, our body and how it connects with the world - and we start to connect what we see to wisdom, then this is where the joy of learning evolves.

I just wanted to encourage you to not be a spectator of life, but a participant.  Study it by all means but make sure that you also connect with it.  It is far too easy to be in the judgment seat, reviewing both yourself and those around you.  Live in the moment.  Breathe in the richness that every breath affords you.  Laugh lots.  Love lots.  Enjoy all, because you are not guaranteed a long life.

This texture image is one that I have been given in a challenge to create a fine art composite.  It will be just one layer that I have chosen to use.  I'll post my final product here soon, so check back in a week to see how I transformed one, ordinary image, into something extraordinary.  Just as God is transforming this ordinary life, into something extraordinary.