An adventure for an uncertain heart

Hello everyone!

I've been away for a long, long time. I never can seem to find the time to do it, although I really do have time... But never mind, excuses never have been the most enjoyable of reading subjects!

I'm starting up a few things for my career in creativity. (I don't say career as an artist, although that really is the biggest thing on my heart, but career in creativity since I will be working on crochet and knitting things, and, who knows, other things maybe too.) I just created a new Facebook page that will be exclusive to this creative endeavor:

https://www.facebook.com/theworkofmyhands/timeline

I'll post things onto it, such as some of the stuff I'm painting; like the purpley dark painting, which is of the tree outside my front door and of which subject I painted for my sister's birthday; or a project that I'm knitting or crocheting, or other similar things.

So, lots of things are happening around here, on my side of the internet connection. One thing that is big (with me at least) is that I might be moving from the state that I was born and lived in up till now. I have made many friends--some of whom I have not kept up a connection with very well--and a few very close friends who I am not looking forward to leaving! I have a ridiculous horror of becoming clichéd, so I don't want to talk about how this is a weird, uncomfortable, frightening, unknowable time in my life, but unfortunately it is exactly that. I can't say that I am feeling particularly brave, even after my sister said the other day, "But aren't you enjoying this new adventure?" (I still can't tell if she was being sarcastic or not.)

I think that was another thing that got me thinking again about the idea of Adventure. I think it's a lost art in our day and age. People nowadays like to have fun and do crazy things, but the courageous, noble, simplicity of motive, the daring adventurer is sadly rare in this day of quick fixes and easy solutions. The kind of adventurer of which I speak has never been numerous, but I think never has he (or she) been less known or highly prized.

I'll write a quick description of the adventurer, mainly for my own benefit, and, no doubt, it will need some adjustments as I learn more and understand more.

An Adventurer should be:

• Courageous
• Noble
• Daring (different from courage)
• Honest
• Imaginative (for he would never get anywhere without imagining the worst, or even the best, of the unknown)
• A Romantic (in the old sense of the word)
• Hopeful

I find that I have left myself too little time to finish even this partial list. I will come back to it later, since it's a subject that I'm going to try to understand and embrace.

Psalm 31:25

   Be strong, and fill your hearts with courage, all of you who hope in Adonai.

Shalom