Thankful for Coloring!!

This blog just makes me so excited! What greater way to end your day than with letting your imagination spill onto a  blank page and making it come to life?? You make a beautiful creation out of nothing. Ever wonder if thats how God felt when creating the world and each and every one of you? Making something so blan into something so wonderful. It's a pretty awesome feeling. If you haven't colored in a while, I would highly suggest you picking up on that little hobby. It's ALWAYS a stress reliever for me and maybe it will be for you too. 

I have this crayon (that my mommy framed all nice for me) that sits right by my computer on my desk. I see it every time I sit down. It carries a lot of significance to me. I heard a devotion that was kinda over coloring one time. How perfect for me, eh? But the speaker spoke of how we colored in kindergarten. How when given a picture, the biggest concern on our mind was staying inside the lines. Which for a 5 year old, thats pretty hard to do. Especially when they always give you these big, fat crayons. Rude. 

Anyways, compare that to any renown artist. They have a blank canvas and the last thing on their mind is containing their work to the confines of lines. 

It says in Romans 12:2 to not be conformed by the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind. 

We weren't meant to be contained in the comfort zone of the lines drawn out for us. We are meant to be transformed. When we let God transform us and we break out of those conformities is when we become the art God see's in us. We are God's masterpiece. So try coloring outside of the lines sometimes too. God and the rest of the world will see the beauty in that :)