Expressing Peace. Doodle Do. 72.
Doodles
Do you like to doodle? I do. Though I sometimes say I’m sketching, a doodle is a doodle is a doodle.
The fun of doodling is just that: it’s fun. No rules. No judgments. No standards. Just fun.
And that’s why it’s a peace-giver. You can be free from spelling words right or keeping them on the paper’s lines. Free to create the lines — straight of curvy, wiggly or dashed — all over the page.
And the bigger the page the better.
Lesson: peace is not just seeing or hearing or smelling something outside myself. Peace comes to me, comes from me, by the actions I perform. Those actions are ways I create peace for myself. That’s a lesson to myself, btw.
For 100 days I “sketched each day”. Anything that caught my attention: a thought, what someone said, an idea, an image. (I did quite a few sketches of my messy desk!) After each small sketch, I was definitely relaxed. I felt peaceful because I’d let my mind relax, taken a break from the “had to do” consciousness, and had fun.
I started with a small notebook and a handful of colored pens. I always had them with me because you never know when doodling will call. Now I also have an over-sized drawing pad that’s replace my over-sized desk calendar. It offers constant invitations to scribble, sketch, doodle. An invitation to peace.
And from there it’s easy to remember: these tiny bits of peace that I enjoy are stars in the endless universe that is Peace. If my little bits of peace are fun, that awareness of Peace is fundamental.
Happy Friday!
Supreme Sketch Artist,
the talent I have is in my willing-to-doodle,
my joy in putting pen to paper without worry
that it won’t be art.
It will be fun.
It will be restful.
It will be a reflection of your Peace.
It always is. It doesn’t matter
if the eyes aren’t even or the words
made more sense than the picture
(it’s worth a thousand anyway).
How neat and sweet, Dear GOD,
to doodle what I want and have it be
the peace-filled way I see it.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Sketch Peace.
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