As I am coming near to 5 full years in Christ and also close to completing my cover to cover one year bible reading, I am praying and thinking about how I should study the bible in 2009.
A thought that came to me is to study the bible with a focus on understanding who God is; this is central to the purpose of this blog (i.e. to bring people closer to God through graphic design in a light-hearted manner e.g. with cartoons) and incidentally, I came across my blog post 3 years ago also emphasizing on staying connected to God.
As to how to study (should I have a study plan or not be too regimental about it? Likely the latter will result in many hours recorded as wasted on my white board! (and yes, I do record my hours wasted as a reminder not to waste too much time!!), how to translate what I have studied to a blog entry and whether I will have daily design or cartoon inspiration to do that.., I really DON’T KNOW. Do pray with me on this issue as nothing can be more important than knowing who God is!
I haven’t been updating this blog regularly for the past 2.5 months and reason is I haven’t found a regular theme to post. Work is busy and life is getting complicated but God is good all the time. I am reminded of this image from one church bulletin news about 2 years ago, about how one should move in flight with God/ church to create a synergy among the things in our life.
The first thing in life is growing intimately with God through prayer. I am going to start gathering clues on what my regular theme ought to be from PRAYER.
Saw this at in a Singapore bookstore and found out that there is this Chick Publications that specialize in gospel literature. Kind of cool the way they use comics to evangelize. Another reason why I should get moving on my cartoon drawings!
Came across this website retailing art toys. StrangeCo, and saw this toy made by Friends with You being sold. Reminded me of the CluelessClay characters that I was working on but put on hold and really got me to think about working on my Clays harder and doing up some art toys with them! Arrghh… proscrastinator doesn’t win the day.
Honoring our parents.. personally, I think there is so much more that can be done in this area. For a start, acknowledging how little our parents’ generation had and how much they gave for our generation puts much in perspective. This compared to how much I concerned myself with MY life’s direction, MY career, MY family planning and MY everything. Not that planning for oneself is such a bad thing, but compared to how little my parents thought for themselves and how much I think for myself, mine seem excessive.
Here are a list of possible ways to honor our parents, gathered from friends.
1. Spend more communication and prayer time
2. Be practical and up the monthly household contribution for them, even if you are not living with them
3. Pay a visit, plan a family trip
4. Pamper your parents with a holiday
5. For those of us with pre-believing parents, pray daily for their salvation!
Thought of drawing a pie chart with percentage of emotions felt, hopefully the next time this is drawn, it will be all red!
Bible verse: 1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Adobe Illustrator’s tools:
Pie chart, Effect- Stylize- Drop Shadow for the legend, Clipping mask
