Living Life Creatively

Sunday, November 22, 2009

How I roll..or edit

I have a love/hate relationship with editing pictures. Seriously, there are moments I can't wait to get home to dump my camera card on our computer. But then there is those times where I have oh, THREE different photo sessions within days of each other and NO TIME to edit them. So to make it through those latter editing times...

I go pour myself some SPARKLING GRAPE JUICE...

haha! Seriously, I'm obsessed with this stuff and it makes me happy while I sit at the computer for HOURS!!!

I've had issues remembering how to use my Photoshop Elements and so I've been going back and forth from Scott's IPhoto to Elements. But I love ELEMENTS and want to learn much more about it. IPhoto really does have some great stuff, and it's easy to quickly move through soo many pictures.

When I can scoot Scooty out of his "school area", I use this little space to do editing and playing with how to use Photoshop. It's turned out to be one of my favorite little corners of our living room!

So here is to editing, and here is to being done (for the moment)!

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Go SEE it!

I almost left this post as just this: the photo and the title to go see it. But I couldn't do that...well, because I like to talk and share my opinion way too much! : )

This movie was most everything I hoped it was! My friend knows the real family and shared how they were a Godly couple. I wish the movie shared more about spiritually how their faith impacted their decision to adopt this boy into their family and how that impacted their faith. But it was still a GREAT movie. It's obviously, for teens and up only. It has some language and very graphic scenes regarding drugs/violence. Coming from a work environment that spreads light into the local "inner city" kids fostered my excitement for this film. I was soo thrilled that it put a positive light on caring for the fatherless! I know God will use it to spark Christians to think about the deserted, abandoned, and needy children right here in our little town.

Scott and I sat at Beef O'Brady's after the movie debriefing everything about it. I said this definitely might make some people think about fostering, mentoring, and even adoption. He said he hoped it actually does. We talked about how we are so moved by compelling stories like this one...but only moved to talk about it. Not moved enough to actually ACT. We NEED the church to ACTIVELY pursue the fatherless in whatever ways they can. Here are a few ways we can reach out and lift up the fatherless:

Adopt

Mentor

Coach

Foster

Lead a Scout Group

Volunteer at a local Youth Center

Get to know Fatherless families

Invite and help Fatherless families to get involved in church

love your neighbor

Support churches and ministries that support the Fatherless

SPEAK up for them (share awareness and encourage others to get involved)

Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9

Friday, November 20, 2009

Just what I needed...a

A Morning All To Myself

Our space heater was set to 70 degrees, and it was a perfectly pleasant morning. I had on my polka dot pj pants and my favorite worn out Notre Dame t-shirt. Scruffles and I just layed around in bed doing basically nothing.