Treasure Your Thoughts

Have you ever had days when things just didn't go right? You try and try and still can't make it work. That's what happened with this piece. Everything went wrong and I wound up tearing the image and "fixing" it as best I could and decoupaging over it again. Ugh, I hate it and that's too bad since I absolutely love this precious image, even though it is a fairy. I finally found someone who sold it on a collage sheet, retrocafeart.com, that was clear and beautifully done. I'm going to have to start all over again. I'll probably keep this one for myself, unless one of you wants it. I'll even pay the shipping.

My thoughts aren't great right now. I'm dealing with depression and don't know why. I don't have any desire to do anything, especially art. I guess I'm in a slump--that artist's black hole. I keep questioning if this is really what I'm supposed to be doing. I've been a musician all week--played at a funeral, lead preschool music, accompanied the church choir, 3 soloists practices and their events, Vacation Bible School meeting where I'm leading the music, a wedding rehearsal and wedding--all this in a week. {Hmmm, maybe I'm just tired.} God's call to me from my teens was to be a musician and I feel like I'm useful and have a purpose when I'm doing that. Though I love art, I'm realizing that it's just a fancy and I can't contribute squat to the family income with it. Not that my music makes a living--far from it and it never has. It's a good thing I have my husband's income. I don't know what I would do without it (and him). It's just very discouraging to me that I can't make a go of something I love doing. If I just knew God's thoughts on the matter.

Psalm 55:2--"My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught."
Isaiah 55:8--" 'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the LORD. "