Comments on: anyone out there? http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/ Discuss, share ideas,ask questions Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:19:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: shoshona http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-2030 shoshona Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:13:21 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-2030 Hi If we cant support one another who will!!!! Pithy afternoon quote! Ho Ho Hi
If we cant support one another who will!!!!
Pithy afternoon quote!
Ho Ho

]]> By: stephie Griffiths http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1864 stephie Griffiths Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:56:23 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1864 Hi Dawn and all, I've just discovered this site, thanks to some guidence from my vicar and I'm very impressed. It looks as if it's still in its infancy stages and perhaps that is the reason why there's limited cohesion between the artists. I think it would be a great shame for you all to drift away, as potentially this looks as if it's going to be a great asset to you all. Good luck with your art and spreading God's message through it. best wishes, Stephie Hi Dawn and all,

I’ve just discovered this site, thanks to some guidence from my vicar and I’m very impressed. It looks as if it’s still in its infancy stages and perhaps that is the reason why there’s limited cohesion between the artists. I think it would be a great shame for you all to drift away, as potentially this looks as if it’s going to be a great asset to you all. Good luck with your art and spreading God’s message through it.

best wishes,
Stephie

]]> By: admin http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1770 admin Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:33:28 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1770 Dawn, thanks so much for writing a comment after mine! :-) What I will do is start a new "Chat" topic each month, so please could you all keep an eye out for it. (We could just keep adding to the same topic for ever, but that means we all end up doing a lot of scrolling through lots of things we have already read!) I do appreciate getting to know people electronically. Although there is no substitute for "face to face", it does make me feel less out on a limb to know that you are all out there! Anyway look out for "October Chat"! I am going to start it now! Dawn, thanks so much for writing a comment after mine! :-)
What I will do is start a new “Chat” topic each month, so please could you all keep an eye out for it. (We could just keep adding to the same topic for ever, but that means we all end up doing a lot of scrolling through lots of things we have already read!)
I do appreciate getting to know people electronically. Although there is no substitute for “face to face”, it does make me feel less out on a limb to know that you are all out there!
Anyway look out for “October Chat”! I am going to start it now!

]]> By: becky http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1768 becky Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:51:37 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1768 hello....i confess it's been a while since i contributed i apologise to those who have felt a bit on a limb.Monthly chat idea would be great - Jo Field is also organising a big get together next year - so take heart!(I hope that's still right Jo?) How paintings 'come 'to us is interesting question - I have had moments of meditational zapps! and long deserts to treck through when i thought i could never think of a painting again.I guess the upshot is that because we paint ideas it will allways be deeply personal and relative to the way we form our relationship with God? Sometimes i find the process of prayer and meditation related to painting almost exhausting and it's only just struck me that ,that is because it is a constant re - examination of my relationship with God.Perhaps this is then when the support of the forum kicks in.Like Sue i will continue to paint regardless because i can't function without doing so but if i feel a seascape or a flower ,or even an Emin bed, is were i am at God will be at the centre of it. Just a little aside to Dave - i don't know if it's any help but i painted a picture of a tree/bush thing not long ago. the painting was about family unity - it's in my portfolio if it helps. hello….i confess it’s been a while since i contributed i apologise to those who have felt a bit on a limb.Monthly chat idea would be great - Jo Field is also organising a big get together next year - so take heart!(I hope that’s still right Jo?)
How paintings ‘come ‘to us is interesting question - I have had moments of meditational zapps! and long deserts to treck through when i thought i could never think of a painting again.I guess the upshot is that because we paint ideas it will allways be deeply personal and relative to the way we form our relationship with God?
Sometimes i find the process of prayer and meditation related to painting almost exhausting and it’s only just struck me that ,that is because it is a constant re - examination of my relationship with God.Perhaps this is then when the support of the forum kicks in.Like Sue i will continue to paint regardless because i can’t function without doing so but if i feel a seascape or a flower ,or even an Emin bed, is were i am at God will be at the centre of it.
Just a little aside to Dave - i don’t know if it’s any help but i painted a picture of a tree/bush thing not long ago. the painting was about family unity - it’s in my portfolio if it helps.

]]> By: Dawn http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1765 Dawn Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:20:09 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1765 Hey Sue...I think your idea for a Monthly Chat is great. I would love an open forum. I have so appreciated the responses and artists who are interested in talking about God in art. I loved what you wrote about "just doing art no matter our talent." That is exactly right. If we waited until we "arrived" we would never get the enjoyment of learning the process with Him. Hey Sue…I think your idea for a Monthly Chat is great. I would love an open forum. I have so appreciated the responses and artists who are interested in talking about God in art.

I loved what you wrote about “just doing art no matter our talent.” That is exactly right. If we waited until we “arrived” we would never get the enjoyment of learning the process with Him.

]]> By: Sue N http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1763 Sue N Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:44:18 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1763 Just thinking about this whole forum business. Is it better in a way to have one conversation at least that is just an onging sharing of thoughts, without too much of a set agenda. That way, we could "chat" without having to check every single forum topic. Each month we could have a topic called "October chat" or whatever the month is. Does this seem sensible to others too? By the way, please, SOMEONE add a comment, There are so many different topics where my comment seems to have been the fianl kiss of death to the whole conversation! I am beginning to get a complex! Just thinking about this whole forum business. Is it better in a way to have one conversation at least that is just an onging sharing of thoughts, without too much of a set agenda. That way, we could “chat” without having to check every single forum topic.
Each month we could have a topic called “October chat” or whatever the month is. Does this seem sensible to others too?
By the way, please, SOMEONE add a comment, There are so many different topics where my comment seems to have been the fianl kiss of death to the whole conversation! I am beginning to get a complex!

]]> By: Susan Hill http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1757 Susan Hill Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:09:46 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1757 pps David another 60 year old!!! pps David another 60 year old!!!

]]> By: Susan Hill http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1756 Susan Hill Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:08:58 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1756 Hi. I must admit I have not heard from ANYONE on another forum I go to. I think everyone must be VERY busy. Never been this quiet though!!! Very strange. I am very busy getting ready for exhibition at St Marks Wimbledon with www.worplegroup.co.uk 11th October. Welcon me to ALL Veritasse artisans. You are all special!!!!!! GOD BLESS!!! Hi.
I must admit I have not heard from ANYONE on another forum I go to. I think everyone must be VERY busy. Never been this quiet though!!!
Very strange.
I am very busy getting ready for exhibition at St Marks Wimbledon with www.worplegroup.co.uk 11th October.
Welcon me to ALL Veritasse artisans. You are all special!!!!!!
GOD BLESS!!!

]]> By: Dave Gilder http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1726 Dave Gilder Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:41:26 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1726 Amen sister sue :-) Amen sister sue :-)

]]> By: Sue N http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1711 Sue N Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:56:26 +0000 http://www.veritasse.co.uk/blog/2008/08/20/anyone-out-there/#comment-1711 Hello everyone! I just want to echo what Jo said about us each being unique. I have spent a fair amount of my life comparing myself with other people and I have decided to STOP. It doesn't do any good. There is always someone who can paint landscapes better (Dave!), who has a better memory, who is ................................................ But God wants each of us to be ourself. We are different because that is how he has made us.When we accept ourselves, when we make peace with who we are, God is much more able to use us. We are also easier people to be around. Insecure people can be defensive and prickly. If we are secure in ourselves, we are also more able to accept others as they are. I am going to carry on painting, because God has made me to be creative. That's a good enough reason! Hello everyone! I just want to echo what Jo said about us each being unique. I have spent a fair amount of my life comparing myself with other people and I have decided to STOP. It doesn’t do any good. There is always someone who can paint landscapes better (Dave!), who has a better memory, who is …………………………………………
But God wants each of us to be ourself. We are different because that is how he has made us.When we accept ourselves, when we make peace with who we are, God is much more able to use us. We are also easier people to be around. Insecure people can be defensive and prickly. If we are secure in ourselves, we are also more able to accept others as they are.
I am going to carry on painting, because God has made me to be creative. That’s a good enough reason!

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