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Mid-morning at the beach. I’m trying to absorb the scantily warm sun masked by thin wispy clouds. Cool waves escort a misty gentle breeze.
There I find peace and contentment, even though many excited children scatter over the exposed tide pool rocks. They scurry about like little hermit crabs—and I hear them in the distance giggle and squeal with delight at the various found treasures.
The waves are washing the beach clean, and erasing the markings of footprints with the ease of an overturned and shaken Etch-A-Sketch. I am lost in the picture perfect moment.
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I’m jumping out of a plane with parachute in-hand. IN-HAND.
The strangest, and maybe most difficult thing about transitioning into a freelance artist’s life is promoting yourself.
As I read, I couldn’t get past the title:
(of note: this post was written many many months ago… but today it’s finally getting wings)
This is the final post in the DOUBT series, and realize I’ve only begun to tell you all the things I wish to share. Today’s post breaks some of my blogging rules because I have to wrap this up as best I can.
I have a friend who is a lot smarter than me. No, not you (well it could be you..). She does smart things like keeping a file of miracles and answered prayers. She does this to help her in times of doubt, and when it seems like no prayers are being answered. She goes to this file for faith reassurance and warm fuzzies.
It had been about 40-ish days since I’d had a french fry, glass of wine, animal flesh, or refined sugar in any form; it’s possible I was beginning to go a little wacky mad. My little journey of 49 days of following a spiritual discipline (fast/Lent – which I wrote about 
To have faith means you have a confident belief or trust. And if you don’t have faith, you have disbelief, or doubt. So it stands to reason that you cannot have faith without initially having doubt. Faith and Doubt: the two are married; it is a never ending infinity. Just when you think you have it all figured out, you reach that doorway of faith only to find another room of doubt. Because in faith there will always be “room” for doubt. And you can’t get to another level of strengthened faith without going through the room of doubt.
Sometimes I’m completely blown away at how God arranges things.
