Trash!

I was really irritable the other day and I couldn't work out why. Dominic, my husband, said it was because we had a very late night when our son, Patrick, came home and we played a very long game of Scrabble - its a bit of a tradition.  Patrick usually wins but this time, amazingly I just beat him!!!  It was a great game :)

Anyway, the late night wasn't the reason for my irritability.  When I was having my prayer time I realised that I'd been eating very unhealthily.  I don't know why, because ususally I eat pretty sensibly.  But I'd been eating a lot of sweet things that really don't agree with me.  I had a blinding revelation that by eating all this unhealthy stuff I was treating my body like trash.  The Lord showed me this, I think, and TRASH was the word that came to me :( 

This is what I did in my art journal:

This page began with the bright orange down the middle, some left over paint I had scraped there.  I dug out some really old Pebeo volume paints I'd forgotten I had and covered the rest of the page.  I really like the texture:

I added stamping into the volume paint and my home made texture paste through a stencil:

I stamped the title:

God also showed me that when I don't look after my body by eating things I shouldn't and not doing the things I should like exercise, I'm trashing not just my body but the gift of life He has given me. This was a really sobering thought.  How could I do this?  However, the outcome has been good because its made me eat healthily again.  God gives us the grace we need to do things but we do need to be determined ourselves.

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