70 year old super hero

So, my father just had heart surgery yesterday. Where you know they saw open the sternum, crank open the rib cage a good 7 inches, cut into various tissues to get to the heart, then cut into the heart to get the troubled vein(s) not conveniently just sitting on top of the heart mind you, sew an artery that they took out of some other part of your body to bypass (hence the name of the surgery) the blockage, sew it all back up, and then super-glue your chest together. That's right I said super-glue!

My father is 70 years old, and recovering like a 50 year old so say the nurses. No sooner did they take the breathing tube out of the old man 5-6 hours after the surgery, did he start telling blonde jokes - and to the blonde nurses i might add! And humming classical music. The next morning he proceeded to scarf down a whole plate of food and cup of coffee. Patients just having had this done aren't supposed to really be able to talk till like the next day. I'm convinced that this is a testimony of the LORD's great love and His Spirit in us.
I'm glad he blesses through the generations!

-Champ out!

1st

Portrait

(3rd oil)

Sketches

I've started a new sketchbook. And so far, all i've drawn for the last +week have been studies of hands (and here are some). Go figure, I'm sure it's from the LORD. Everything's from the LORD

Sunday School!

Trying to expose my "teens" at the corps to the Bible stories many of us grew up with which laid such a foundation (i.e. Moses, Israelites, Jericho, Samuel hearing the YHWH in the middle of the night, King Saul, King David, the basics really). We've been reading a bit of 1 Samuel, and the other day I was reading 1 Samuel 15 in particular, the end, and the LORD was really painting a picture for me here. Saul is (as it has been shown to me) perhaps stammering "B-but I did obey the LORD" Samuel is giving the the word from the LORD "...Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king." and then Saul, devastated, the king blubbering in tears surely, on his hands and knees reaching desperately for Samuel not to turn away from him. The scene truely breaks my heart.

For some reason (Danielle said it best I think "We all suck") I'm having to remember how to be obedient, and I see (perhaps again) just what a great amount that has to do with hearing His voice.