canvases

there is nothing more beautiful than a clean white canvas, with paint thrown all over it. we had a blast tonight with the young women, fingerpainting (in crystal and emma's case) and artisically made portraits (aggie and lina) on these beautiful clean canvases.

it made me think of life in general, starting out with our nice clean canvas and being able to decide exactly what we want to place out there on it for the rest of the world to see. we can make choices and know how they'll affect us... because we know the plan and what is in store in this life - and the life to come

it's like that quote that i love to torture the girls with
"the lord has given you the gift of agency and instructed you sufficiently to know good from evil. you are free to choose and are permitted to act, but are not free to choose the consequences. with absolute certainty, choices of good and right lead to happiness and peace. while choices of sin and evil eventually lead to unhappiness, sorrow and misery."
i don't know about you - but i think i am going to be pretty careful what goes on my personal canvas. i want to be seen in a good light, with bright and confident brush strokes
- that i am proud to hang for others to see.