Clay Marzo - Pro Surfer

There are some truly amazing people in this world. Some incredible places and some awesome fun to be had by all.

An Awesome Book

A kids book with a concept I can really get behind. Too many kids don't get the chance to enjoy being a kid and we should dod everything we can so that they can. So here is a book to help bother of us remember.

Not only does this book remind us all to dream but Dallas Clayton (the guy above) has set up a charity (Awesome World Foundation) to donate books directly to school, hospitals , libraries, camps and shelters in the States and around the world. The idea is that not only will kids be encouraged to dream but also how to read.

Awesome Book Tour from Dallas Clayton on Vimeo.

An Awesome Book from Dallas Clayton on Vimeo.

A Box of Sun - Monday Project

In a bid to actual put time aside to draw, paint or play with (read learn) illustrator I signed up to The Monday Project. By having a project it made more sense that I would have that as the catalyst to finding the motivation needed to continue playing around and have fun. I especially wanted to use the project as a way to learn how to actually use illustrator; curiosity is a strange thing.

My first project and its not even completed (its not in illustrator like I wanted!).
A sketch of an empty box under a tree. As there are no clouds in the sky one can assume it is a sunny day therefore a box of sun sits under a tree on top of a rolling hill. A Box of Sun.


Think I'll still put it in illustrator and see what happens; I'm sure it will end up looking completely different.

James 1:12-27 (New King James)

Loving God Under Trials

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. ¹³ Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. ¹⁵ Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Qualities Needed in Trials

¹⁹ So then,^a]">[a] my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; ²⁰ for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Doers—Not Hearers Only

²¹ Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. ²⁵ But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
²⁶ If anyone among you^b]">[b] thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. ²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

(via biblegateway)

I could study these words for weeks or even months and still there would be more to learn, more that God would reveal, more to repent from.