"The enemy of great art is good taste."- Picasso

This cat (Picasso) new a little something about art. Maybe great art begins even from before it it finished.? With every stroke of a brush or every note sang or that picture that maybe took some of your air away. the process maybe the greatness of that art.? I am thankful God doesn't look at us like this, as something like "taste" which always changes with the times. If this were the case He would have gotten rid of us a while back.I recently watched this video by Rich Mullins(man filled lyrical greatness if I may say so myself) and he said something that truly moved me.

"Good taste has all to do with being cultured and refined, and it is far to do with anything about being human.The reason why I like the bible so much is because the humans in the bible were pretty far from being refined.People would tell me that God loved me and I would think so what... God loves everyone that just proves that God aint got no taste, I don't think he does...thank.God. God has a way of taking the junk in our lives and making the greatest art out of it. If he was cultured and civilized as most christian people wished He was,He would be useless to Christianity."


Maybe our daily life is this "art" process where we look at it for what it is, and God looks at it for what it can be.? I think the Lord created something amazing, something breathe taking( that's usually the only way he creates.) Who we can be is only seen through the eyes of the artist. Look in the mirror and be amazed, feel your chest go up and down,your body maneuver as an orchestra right on key...be amazed. And hear this,this body comes bearing gifts.use.them.The art is now able to affect others.

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Giomarcela

I love not man the less, but nature more.

"FREEDOM" the literal theme for this past weekend.Well,a friend(chanti) and I decided that we should get more acquainted with Florida nature.Sufficient to say that we got a little more acquainted with nature then we both hoped(this is not a complaint.)Accompanied by friends and new friends Miami's camping team was made up by:the core(cory),julian the great,one eyed open liz, and johanna the enthusiast. Upon our arrival to Markham camp grounds we had this silly allusion that we would not be around water(mosquitoes),just grass lands.We.Were.Wrong.Next to our camp ground we were accompanied by a canal..filled with sweet sweet gators( sarcasm intended.) This was not going to stop our adventurous hearts.We proceeded to make up our tent,hammocks and fire..we succeeded.Maybe the fire was questionable?.

Nonetheless the rest of the night into the next morning was filled with many laughs,way funny comments(ahmm julian),jokes,deep conversations,smores,turkey burgers,Snapple,and always invited music. At one point in the night I caught myself quietly looking around at the laughing faces I was surrounded by and thinking..this.is.freedom.To share those laughs with creation around I knew the world is as it should be.

I was reading my friends blog and he happen to post a quote that I love by David Henry Thoreau In regards to exuberant and natural living:"go fish and hunt far and wide day by day - farther and wider - and rest thee by many brooks and hearth sides without misgiving. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played. Grow wild according to thy nature... let the thunder rumble... let not to get a living be thy trade but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not... we should come home from far adventures, and perils, and discoveries, every day with new experience and character."

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Giomarcela