Courage

If you are going through a difficult time of it, possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard!

If you would like to comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is one of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer. Blessings!

If you are going through a difficult time of it, possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard!

If you would like to comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is the third of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer. Blessings!

Daniel Didn't Plan On This

If you are going through a difficult time of it, possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard!

If you would like comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is the third of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer. Blessings!

In the Pit

If you are going through a difficult time of it, possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard!

If you would like comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is the second of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer. Blessings!

Chuck Colson on Religious Freedom and Possible Necessity of Civil Disobe...

Where is the JOY in this ?

If you are going through a difficult time of it,

possibly this is God's timing that you'd view this postcard !

If you would like comment, I would like your input. Now that was a dangerous thing to say, but I would really like to hear your thoughts concerning this postcard. This card is one of several that I am doing for a client. The intent is to be able to send a brief uplifting note to someone who is going through very serious health challenges like cancer. Everyone has known someone close who has had this type of condition, or possibly you yourself are dealing with issues like this today or have in the past.
What I am looking for are comments pro or con as to whether this card would be received as a form of encouragement while incorporating a bit of humor. Thank you for your time in considering this and any comments that you'd like to offer.  Blessings!

The Calling of Saint Matthew

"The Calling of Saint Matthew" Caravaggio 1599-1600

    This painting was in an article entitled "A Dramatic Enlightenment." A good friend pointed me to this online at The Wall Street Journal's Arts & Entertainment section of January 14, 2012. It was written by Willard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. I would like to share portions of what he wrote concerning this painting by Michelanelo Merisi da Caravaggio, painted around 1600, titled, "The Calling of Saint Matthew" as follows:

    "The Calling" dramatizes an interruption, an invitation or, more accurately, a command. Levi is "called" to a new life when he least expects it. ...Jesus catches Matthew off-guard, in the midst of four companions. He looks up as Jesus, his face illuminated but his body otherwise in shadow, extends his right arm in an action deliberately evoking God's to Adam on the Sistine Ceiling. In front of Jesus, slightly bending over and turning away from us, Peter repeats the gesture. The conversion has begun, although only Jesus seems to know it. ...Matthew sits to one side, huddling with his buddies. ...Like the other money counters, they are dressed in a cavalier modern style. Jesus and Peter, calling Levi to a new life, paradoxically wear traditional biblical garb. The surly, handsomest youth, bent over the table at the far left, looks uninterested in anything but his money. So does the older, bespectacled figure above him. ...Matthew seems to say, 'Who, me?' ...Jesus understands that he has accomplished his mission. Although a little hard to see, his bare feet turn away from the table and from his newest convert. He knows that it is time to go. Matthew's vocation has only just begun."

    Do you ever feel that you are being called to a life much different from what you are experiencing now? Does it seem that everyone around you, like Matthew's buddies, is oblivious to what you are hearing as an invitation? If your friends only knew that you are being called to something other than life of worldly pleasures like Matthew.

    Each one of us has within us a desire for fulfillment that can't be satisfied by what this world offers. Are you, as this author states, sitting there in your "cavalier modern style" while trying to ignore the one who beckons you to come? Jesus has done the work on our behalf to make it possible for anyone to follow Him. You're not likely to see Jesus standing at the end of your table with outstretched arm, but through His Spirit we are called. As the title of the article goes, your "Dramatic Enlightenment" may come through the words of a friend, something you read, or maybe God is using this painting to speak to you.

    God is very creative in reaching out to all of us. The important thing is to respond as Matthew did. Today is the day to accept the call of Him who beckons you to come. Today is the day of salvation.