“She did what she could” ~ five little words that can change your life.  Join me at the Design 4 Living Women’s Conference on May 21 and 22, 2010 at Cornerstone Fellowship in Livermore, California.  For more info or to register on-line go to www.cornerstoneweb.org

The conference is designed to give women tools to live life  NOW right in the middle of whatever circumstances they are in.   It’s easy to think that we have to do everything but what if God is asking us just to do our part?

Breakout sessions include:

• Learning how to take care of yourself emotionally, physically and spiritually while actively engaged in raising children.
• Getting off the food merry-go-round and breaking free of food disorders.
• Getting over the feeling you are on the outside looking in, that you don’t “fit in.”
• Creating practical steps to make it through life’s inevitable storms.
• Breaking free from your sexual past to move freely into your future.
• Mothering from grace not guilt as a single mom.

I will be presenting the single mom session and if you are a member of this club, I invite you to thrive not merely survive right where you are planted, doing what you can do,  in this season of your life.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How many times has someone come up with an idea or even a name for something and I’ve said to myself ~ “wish I had thought of that,  it seems so obvious or right.”  The thing is, it wasn’t obvious or right to me before that moment because I was thinking within my own spectrum of possibilities.  Rather than allowing my mind to explore, I was ready to jump to conclusions that worked before or weren’t that far out of my habitual thinking.

As an artist, I am forever challenged by creating new images using the same medium.  It’s amazing to me how many permutations I can come up with in size, shape, color and form when I have kept my mind open to fresh ideas.  These ideas might not even have anything to do with the project at hand but they have been percolating and turning around in my mind ~ a photograph, a quote, a song, a page from a magazine.  The source isn’t important.  What’s important is my being open to the free flow of possibilities.

This is true in everything we do.  Thinking outside our proverbial little boxes opens us up to new ways of seeing and new ways of creating.  It expands our world, and in turn, expands our relationships, our work, our zest for life.