GOD'S SCHOOL OF ART: Where I have been...

For the past few weeks I have been in God's school of art, learning to design my life... Yes you read that well... Designing my life, so that I can help others design theirs.

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I've been designing spaces, products, buildings... And only recently it hit me... Is my life well designed? Who is supposed to design it for me?

It has taken me 25 years to learn English, 6+ years to learn architecture and design. Still trying to learn Swahili😅😜... Yet everyday I wake up to discover something new I didn't know about those fields — and I'm excited by it.

However, how come when it comes to my life... Learning to speak Yve-ish😅, I'm always looking for 3 things to live the perfect life or 5 things to become more successful or 10 steps to... You name it... In 3 days!!!?!

Is English more important... Or more detailed than my life?

I feel like sharing the dynamics of how design process happens in relation to life but I feel like I will be giving someone another set of: "5 steps to design your life" 😅... So I won't...

Instead I'll just say, it's been a fun 5 weeks of enjoying how my life is coming out😅... Without following any 3, 5, 10 or 23 steps... Just taking the pencil of God's word and sketching, conceptualizing, scheming, designing, detailing... the life He called me into... And even enjoying the back and forths there in...

Last week, after much effort into designing me, something on the sketch was found so off... I remember the pain of Him tearing that page out of my life... But also the joy... It's in the dustbin now... Actually, the incinerator... And no one can or should ever bring it up... Not even me.

 

Then the design process continues...

By the way, I already know my final design, it's in my Chief Designer's mind and oooh isn't it good😱...  He shared it with me... Of course I have to keep looking at it everyday to get the clearer, fuller picture... But that's what design is, right? It's in your head and as you do certain things with your hands, one day you look at that work and you are sure it matches the one you saw in your head... heart... head?!?

... Then you say ce'st bon... (French for it is good)

 

Oh yeah... I am aware there are  timelines to this beautiful project that I am... But I am not under pressure... Just urgency... There is a difference... One is negative the other is informed... Revelational...

After all life is a journey, not a destination.

I'm finding more peace looking at it that way... A journey... I'm now enjoying every step of this journey because I now know it counts too...

That's why everytime I look at myself in the mirror I say:
I am God's Artwork, and He is at work in me, through me, and for me 😌😌.
Meaning, though I use the phrase designing my life, it doesn't mean I do it apart from God. He is in every detail of this project and I constantly have to let him do His part even as I do my part.

Have you ever had to go through such a season? Or are you in such a season right now? In one phrase/sentence, how would you describe it? You are welcome to share in the comments😃.

Thank you for taking your time on today's post, I have good things lined up for you for the next 15 weeks😁 (Christmas is around the corner)... stay tuned!