Sara the Secretary who is a Cat.

I did this drawing about how my boss dictates to her cat in the middle of the night.
It's not true, but I wish it was. :D

Church Notes | Joy in Hope

This is a drawing of my new friend Heather, she is pretty cool. The specifics of the drawing belong to her, but the over-arching theme of the drawing and sermon is one of hope, and the joy we find in it. "Find" being the operative word here.

Too often we mistake times of silence and stillness for seasons of darkness. That isn't always the case, maybe even never the case. I would even argue that in most cases the stillness only becomes "dark" when we neglect to seek out God and remind ourselves of his promises. If we took the time to remind ourselves of who He is and His promises the darkness wont come. Darkness, what ever it's form, is always held at bay with light.

Church Notes | Thursday's

This post finds itself in a very interesting place.

Last week the study at church was out of Malachi, and was about this concept of, "Thursdays". "Thursday" being a name for the regular days. The times that are not random, that are neither high nor low. Your routine.

If you frequent my blog you know that when I take notes in church part of my note-taking is drawing. For sometime now I have been praying during, and in some cases even before the sermon for the Lord to give me some imagery that will speak to me or others, and hopefully something that will reflect the message.

Last week the image I got was a man walking down a dark path protecting his "flame". With that image was the question, "Do you guard your flame when you should be stoking it?" That was very stirring at the time, and extremely convicting now. Convicting because If I would have set 30 minutes aside earlier this week to do what I am doing now my week would have been so much more effective and brighter. Essentially if I would have listen to what the Lord said to me and showed me then I would have realized that in this season of "Thursdays" I had only been protecting my "flame" and not stoking it. It's heat and light had grown dim leaving it vulnerable to gusts of wind.

I share this as a reminder for myself, and hopefully others, of the importance of faithfulness in our routines. In this of "Tuesday's", "Wednesday's", and "Thursday's" I have grown quite lax. This image of a man needing to stoke his flame was directly for me and I was too lazy to do anything about it! And I KNEW IT but I STILL didn't do anything about it! A fire can not live when there is nothing to fuel it. Forest fires do not need to be shielded from wind and rain. Lord let me heart not be the light a single Candle, but mingle it with Yours, the men and women who went before me, and those who walk along side me now. May we be a raging fire for You. We are young and we WILL set this world on fire for You!

The Sixth Year

My blog grew and owl face and head this year.
I am so proud of him.


My Blog is 6 Years old now! How crazy is that?! He would be in first grad making friends with all the other little blog friends out there.

I know I say I want to blog more each year, and lets be honest here, I really do WANT to blog more, but in keeping with the honesty, I don't know how much I will be able to blog this year because work is going to be crazy! And lets face it, that is a good problem to have. :) However I am moving up to LA in a few weeks reducing my 45 mile commute (one way) that I have had for over a year to a 2.6 mile commute! Huzzah!

P.S. I bought a bike to ride to and fro work! #clingclink #bikebellsounds

Bye bye 2011

Well 2011 is over.

I can't say that I didn't like or enjoy 2011, because it was a great year in many respects. I met so many awesome and powerful people in 2011. Whether it be at work, church, or just life in general. What I can say about 2011 is that, with the freedom and blessing that is hind-sight, I didn't really like myself too much in 2011.

I was extremely lazy and unfocused, and I am ashamed to say that those two adjectives festered into the majority of my life this past year. As I said before it wasn't all bad, but 2010 was such a great year! So epic. Arguably 2011 should have been at least just as awesome and powerful, I mean I serve and love a dynamic Living God. In 2011 I was just slightly productive. I mean just take a look at my blog posts from this past year. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 20!! REALLY?! It says 25 but the last 5 are from me adding the stuff I scanned but never posted. To illustrate my point further, the 5 most recent posts would have been over 35 additional posts. And it only took me the better part of 2 and a half days to clean them up and get them semi-postable. So please enjoy them. :P I wish I just would have got them together sooner.

Here is to a powerful and inspired 2012! If you pray, pray that I seek the Lord in new dynamic ways. That I risk for His Kingdom. That I look for, and see, His beauty everywhere. And most importantly that I learn to Love even more effectively, because without Love I have nothing.

The Lost Non-Church Notes Church Drawings of 2011

More Church related doodles.

Basically anything that I drew at Church or at something Church related that are not Church Notes.

Enjoy! :D

This one may look like church notes but do not be dismayed they are notes to took during CIRCLES, a discipleship program my Church has. This drawing pretty much sums up 2011. :/

More CIRCLES notes. But I drew my a fellow slice Amanda.

Thats me realizing that I was not trusting the Lord with my heart.

( you might notice a theme with the drawing of my self in the second half of 2011 :/)

This is my dear friend Melanie. She helped open my eyes to hope powerful the Holy Spirt truly is!

And for that I will be forever grateful, and I am pretty sure she will see some extra jewels in Heaven for it ;).

Oh and I still need to color this :/

This is of two worship leaders at my Church.

Their friendship reminds me of one I once had.

I drew this during a response time at the end of service at church.

These two I drew just last week. I went to a house of 24-7 prayer and worship with some of the new 2.0 Slices (CIRCLES Reference). And I drew two of them.

I just laid down what the Lord put on my heart.

I was so blessed that it blessed them.

Its pretty amazing how echo-system of spiritual gifting works.

I get blessed b/c they were blessed. :)

The Lost Random Doodles of 2011

Random Doodles.

The little girl is the main character from a comic I never finished! :(

A doodles... where from? Um... CIRCLES?

I drew the moon chart as an idea for an intro to a play I helped with.

The lasy is a Lady who is in my Life Group.

(I drew this during LifeGroup).

This is titled "Did God say?"

This is buff me with my Spiritual Owl companion.

We fight evil and the Devil.

These are some of my Favorite X-Men!

They would not make a good reality TV show b/c aside from Jean and Emma I think they would all get along quite well.

Oh yes Kitty doesn't like Emma either. Maybe it would be... Poor Kurt and Hank would have to live in a catty house.