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| Sunrise on Fishtail Mountain |
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| Fewa Lake & Anapurna Range, Pokhara |
This picture is the first one I have sold so far.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Mountain Paintings
Here are two of the recent paintings I have done. I will try to upload more as I get the time and manage to get good pictures of them. Unfortuantely some of the other photos didn't turn out.
This picture is the first one I have sold so far.
This picture is the first one I have sold so far.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
My New Year's resolution and discovery
As at the end of every year, I was thinking about my goals for the New Year, both practical and personal. The practical ones are always easier to come up with. The ones for personal growth require a bit more introspection, and I feel, can tend to be a bit more discouraging. Some of these are things I’ve tried to improve in for a long time without significant success.
This year the main one I know I need to work on is to be calmer, to not take things so seriously, to not overreact when people or situations are upsetting. As this is a long standing personal weakness, I was thinking about how to actually make this change a permanent one.
In the morning of the 31st we went to the Sisters of Charity’s home for dying and destitute elderly people. Previously we sang for the children they care for who are recovering from tuberculosis, and the sisters asked if we would come and sing for the elderly as well.
While singing I thought about the love and unselfishness that enables these sisters to care for others day in and day out. A quote from Mother Teresa came to life as I looked at the people around me. "I see Jesus in every human being," she said. "I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus."
I started to think about what this means—to see Jesus in every human being. So many times I have heard the instruction to be like Jesus, to represent Him to others, to think about what Jesus would do. I’ve tried that, and so many times I’ve failed at it. Jesus was a perfect representation of God’s love, and I am only an imperfect human being.
But what if I looked at it the other way around? Instead of trying to be Jesus, to try to treat others as I would if they were Jesus.
I thought of how the greeting in Nepal, “namaste” literally means “I bow to the God that is inside you”. The Bible tells us that we are made in God’s image, and I do believe that each person carries a part of God inside them.
As I carried on with my day, I kept reflecting on this idea. Instead of reacting in frustration to someone I could tell myself instead: “This is sad Jesus, I need to encourage him. This is tired Jesus, I must show patience and do what I can to help.”
So that is my resolution for the New Year – to treat each person with the respect, kindness, and patience that I would show to Jesus were He right in front of me. I’ll still make mistakes, get impatient and frustrated – I already made a big one shortly after deciding this – but hopefully over time, as I put this into practice it will become a part of my way of thinking and help me to make the changes permanent ones.
This year the main one I know I need to work on is to be calmer, to not take things so seriously, to not overreact when people or situations are upsetting. As this is a long standing personal weakness, I was thinking about how to actually make this change a permanent one.
In the morning of the 31st we went to the Sisters of Charity’s home for dying and destitute elderly people. Previously we sang for the children they care for who are recovering from tuberculosis, and the sisters asked if we would come and sing for the elderly as well.
While singing I thought about the love and unselfishness that enables these sisters to care for others day in and day out. A quote from Mother Teresa came to life as I looked at the people around me. "I see Jesus in every human being," she said. "I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus."
I started to think about what this means—to see Jesus in every human being. So many times I have heard the instruction to be like Jesus, to represent Him to others, to think about what Jesus would do. I’ve tried that, and so many times I’ve failed at it. Jesus was a perfect representation of God’s love, and I am only an imperfect human being.
But what if I looked at it the other way around? Instead of trying to be Jesus, to try to treat others as I would if they were Jesus.
I thought of how the greeting in Nepal, “namaste” literally means “I bow to the God that is inside you”. The Bible tells us that we are made in God’s image, and I do believe that each person carries a part of God inside them.
As I carried on with my day, I kept reflecting on this idea. Instead of reacting in frustration to someone I could tell myself instead: “This is sad Jesus, I need to encourage him. This is tired Jesus, I must show patience and do what I can to help.”
So that is my resolution for the New Year – to treat each person with the respect, kindness, and patience that I would show to Jesus were He right in front of me. I’ll still make mistakes, get impatient and frustrated – I already made a big one shortly after deciding this – but hopefully over time, as I put this into practice it will become a part of my way of thinking and help me to make the changes permanent ones.
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