Deonne and I attended a wedding in Dallas on Friday, and then went to the Kimbell Art Museum on Saturday to view the Chicago collection of Impressionist painting. We really enjoyed viewing the paintings from Monet to Van Gogh. I especially liked the early impressionist paintings. I discovered the work of the painter Monet described as really inspiring him, as being my favorite, based on the one painting of his I viewed. He is the Dutch painter, Johan Barthold Jongkind.

But what I was really was impressed with was not in the museum, but in a conservatory we visited after the museum. We went to the Botanical Gardens in Fort Worth.We explored a tropical rain forest contained in a glass conservatory. The variety, size, and diversity of plants were amazing. All of it living artwork of God. Wow.

Life is an adventure

Life can be described as an adventure. So when something unexpected happens, there should be no surprise, only a realization that life is not static. I recently was let go from a design firm I had been working at for over 2 years. It is a great place to work, but I had a feeling that it was time to move on. God graciously helped me along, since I do not initiate job changes very well. So the parting was mutual and cordial. Now I am faced with continuing in the design field, or make the jump into ministry. I will be graduating from Dallas Theological Seminary in the Spring. There are a lot of options in the design field here in Austin, but until I start looking in the ministry field, I do not know what is available. In any case, I know God will direct me if I follow him obediently. That is what I am trying to do. Life is an adventure, designed by God.