Soul Restoration Blog Hop!

[This post will stay at the top for this weekend.]
 

UPDATE: My apologies, Dawn pointed out the link to her blog was broken. All fixed now.
SORRY, Dawn!


Welcome, Blog-Hoppers!
You arrived here from Sami Jo's blog: Her Household.
Your next stop on the Hop: Dawn's  Seeking Sense.

Please make yourself at home here, browse around, leave some comments. (I love comments. For a new blogger, it's like getting good snail mail.) Take a look at some of my favorite blogs, listed at the right.

I invite you to come to visit after the Hop. There will be a captioning contest on Wednesday, March 9, and will be judged by a fabulous architect/artist/singer I know. There will be a prize! Next contest will be judged by the winner of this one.

See the widget just to the right? Soul Restoration class. Brave Girls Club (BGC).

I don't remember how I found BGC. Somehow I found an email of "A little birdie told me" and signed up for them. I liked them so much, I checked out the website. And there I saw a little blurb about this Soul Restoration online course they were giving for the first time. Hmmmm...

I was drawn back to look at the information, again and again. Then one thing jumped out at me:

The original YOU is still in there.

That got to me. For a long time, I had been mourning 'me.' With the burden of caring for parents, getting older myself, a failed romance, a burn-out job; I needed to hear that "I" was still in there somewhere!

So I decided to give myself a Christmas present: Soul Restoration.

For the first time in a long time, I was looking forward to something.

I am a fine artist. My media are colored pencils and egg tempera. So the whole popular "multimedia" approach to things is really foreign to my aesthetic. Please do not misunderstand, I admire the style and techniques; it's just foreign to me.

Turns out, the art stuff in the class has been a lot of fun.
The "soul work" has been difficult, but very, very rewarding.

Much of the soul work I have already done, in the course of just living. I knew about setting limits, knowing my weaknesses and strengths, the concept of a "Truthteller" (which in my case, is the Holy Trinity). What was interesting to me is the way the art projects helped to gel all that finished work...and to remind me of all the Truths God has taught me through the years.

I knew the course had an affect when, about in week three, my mother said, "You are happy. You are more happy than I have seen you in a long time."

Nice.

I think part of the 'magic' of the course is that, in the process of creating the art, the mind and heart get into "flow," that state where creativity and truth co-mingle. I experienced flow a lot while a musician...you know, you begin something, and four hours later you look up and can't believe that much time has passed.

In that state, the heart is freed of constraints. Truth can penetrate, and Truth can heal the sores and wounds in our hearts.

What do you think?

Anyway, if anyone reading this has not done the course, I encourage you to do so. Save your pennies (like I did.) Make room in the schedule. You do not need to be an artist. You do not need to be a Christian, or religious in any way.  (You don't even need to be a woman...they're putting together a similar course for men.) What you do need, though, is a heart willing to look at Truth, and to change.

You can do it, Brave Girl!

"And now a word from our sponsor."

You can click on the widget at the top right column, or click on the links, below.

Join us for the powerful and fun online workshops taught by Melody Ross 

that are being enjoyed and loved by women all over the world! 

Soul Restoration on-line classes - Now expanded to TWO sessions:  

Soul Restoration Part 1 – Finding Your Truth (6 weeks) 

April 5, 2011 Session: $99 – Register HERE. 

Soul Restoration Part 2 – Living Your Truth (6 weeks) 

[For graduates of Soul Restoration 1 only] 

June 7, 2011 Session: $99 – Register HERE

Here's just a small sampling of the art work, representing great, soul-changing truths.

These are called "Truth Cards." 

Part of a book made during the class: