something new for us here at sonyamacdesigns … it’s my heart to honor my Jesus in my actions and my words … daily, every day. So this is a new practice for me … to pray with open hands and an open heart and to sign my name to anything in lower case … it’s just, yes crazy … but a constant reminder to self … that bought for a price was me and you … chosen are we.

God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,

1 Corinthians 1:28

I feel like an old chair, that my FATHER … sat there. Just sitting and waiting in HOPE for some new cover, some prettier cover to match the new me. The me in progress. The me still in transition. The me who will never see HIS glory … for that too will be a new me … one closer to sanctification … cause this life is all a process of HIM creating a clean heart.

The process of creating something new, from something old … like me or this chair … requires some ripping … here and there. Ripping is painful.

The process of creating something new, from something old … like me … requires some pulling of nail heads … here and there. Pulling is painful and nail heads leave little holes.

The process of creating something new, from something old … like me or this chair … requires some sanding of the wood. Sanding is painful and sanding creates heat.

The process of creating something new, from something old … like me or this chair … requires some … dreaming of new cloth. Glory!

The process of creating something new, from something old … like me or this chair … requires some … shopping for new cloth. Glory!

The process of creating something new, from something old … like me or this chair … requires some … stitching of new cloth. Glory!

…. requires some new nail heads … more GLORY

…. requires some wood filler … even more GLORY

…. requires some wood glue … now even more GLORY

add a little shine and you got NEW … Glory glory hal la lu ya

Joining Jennifer today for studio sneak peak Friday

My son, muffin man is home sick today with the BIG EYE … he is one highly allergic, asthmatic giant boy of eleven years. I mean … he stands five foot eight inches and already wears a size 13 shoe. Man …

We have over forty trees on the little lot … we call home and yesterday … out of complete … cicada overwhelm … my son invented this game and I even played. We went from tree to tree in game like fashion … with balls … just to see em SWARM … the entire yard was a buzz and there we were … the three of us … screaming and running … from the ruckus we created.

This sounds like a video game to me … I’m just wondering if you … can get the program written in time for Christmas 2011 … do you know someone … share this idea with em!

It could be like Grand Theft Auto … you’re on a night walk with a friend and out of nowhere … a random single cicada attack! no witnesses … sweet.

Just moments ago … my video girl was picked up for her very first job. And, although much has changed in this world … some things still remain the same … babysitting still rocks as first time employment. Bout to design her some cards … so she can drum up some more babysitting biz!

So, this week, me and the Creative Biz team, have been working on our check in for the Creative Biz Marathon, that we started on December twenty-six of last year. Each one of us have been hitting it hard and heavy, for several months now. We decided … way back in December … I think, to do a check in before the summer holiday season kicks in and well … what do you know … it’s here. Check out our blog … on May 25th to find out just how we are each doing on this creative biz journey. It’s sure to be a much watch mini drama times five.

Linking up with Jennifer today at Studio JRU for Sneak Peak Friday today, so click on … to see what some other creatives have been up to this week … love is a verb … sonya la

Where did she get the nerve?

When did she get the nerve?

Well … I got the nerve up this morning (Thursday May 12), after my daughter … video girl … looked at me with sheer disappointment … that’s where I got it and I never want to see it again. I pondered, and pondered … why we were in the financial shape that we’re in. I knew it was me … NOT my GOD or my JESUS.  So, I looked at this site again and I thought about Danielle, Marie, Laura, Lisa, Kelly and Christine Then I thought (as I often do) about a telephone conversation with Robin. One is which Robin says to me and I quote “Sonya … you are an idea generator” Then my thoughts went back to Lisa and her latest post … where she says over and over again …

“What is the unique gift I can leverage that has a value in the marketplace people will pay for?”  -Lisa Beam

so my question for you today  is What is your unique gift?

“Clarity come through engagement not through thought.”  -Marie Forleo

Inspired Studios Magazine Spring 2011