At birth, each of us is given a set of tools to enable
us to get our journeying on earth. Some acquire paint
brushes, and others acerate leaves and thread. There are
those with knives to carve wood and still others
run wax and do candles. No substance the craft,
the tools are given freely. These tools may not
resemble what the human race cognizes or expects, but
they are thoughts and whisperings in the head and heart. The vision of beauty and colours beyond belief are
woven into the fibre of each of us.
You may state that you never saw the brushwoods or the
needles. My friend, they were there in your fingertips
and in your soul. When a colour struck your fancy or
a branchlet inspired you to believe about the perfect topographic point to
set it - there was your palette of paint and the clay to
do a vase. Inspiration takes many word forms and
forms, but if we lose a tool or two, somewhere later
in life they look and we acquire a 2nd chance.
Crafts and avocations are made in heaven. They are
disguised as such as because the beauty is inside and
we must happen the right touching to open up the doors of
creativeness and ingenuity. Once opened, the Charming
Box will not fold again. The visions come up at the
most inopportune times. Waiting for a bus, rocking a
baby, and even washing a flooring are not excluded. Each is a bead or button to be picked up and used.
When you give something that you made with your
bosom to a loved one, be assured that the quill pens used
to subscribe your name on your undertaking are made of gold. The ink is the fluent H2O of who you are and where
you are headed. If wood is your particular talent, then
a tree experiences privileged to impart you a spot of itself to do
the celestial sphere proud. Yarn, sparkles, and even a plume
all are happy to do your thoughts come up to light. So,
make to your heart's content, give gifts as if they were
one of a kind, for truly they are, and base proud when
you manus your tool box or sewing handbasket back to the
Almighty. If they are well used, then your life will shine. If they haven't been touched, then the human race is less of
a topographic point because of it. Carry Through your dreams, and be the
creative person that you cognize is in your being. We all delay and
hope that the beauty you make will assist us visualize
the hoarded wealths of the human race we will come in someday. Trade and cognize that you are doing the work of the
existence - and as the expression travels "Live Well and
Prosper" in ways you have got just started to discover.
©Arleen M. Kaptur
August, 2007
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