I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We went next door to our neighbors; this is a pic Anne and I. She turned out to be a good and compassionate friend. She is a nurse and she came over more than once and helped me when I was sick this summer. It’s funny what can bring people together. Her brother was recently been diagnosed with stomach cancer. I have such a tug on my heart for people in ill health now. I have been praying for Alison and her husband as she struggles with cancer too. I actually have this radical belief (for these modern times) that God can heal people. I want to just hold these people and tell them to turn their illness over to God and to pray for them.

I have this “feeling” and burden since I went through the trials with my health and really dug around in the scriptures and had to stand firm and believe in God when my doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with me but agreed I was really sick. So, now that I am really on the road to recovery (by putting my trust in God) I am sitting at my art desk asking myself, what else can I do for people? I feel better and I want to encourage other people that feel awful and this makes my creative self feels awkward. Do I sound too pious? I can’t figure out why I should feel odd. It’s just that there has to be a balance in drawing cute girls riding vespas (which awhile back I was pretty passionate about) and really reaching out to people. Funny, I guess at 42 I am growing up even a bit more. Oh, the other picture is of Buddy, their 16 year old pup who had had a bit of turkey himself this holiday.