Update 4/20/26 I got some peace to stop my fast this morning. I was becoming so physically weak. I wasn’t eating properly to sustain myself. I ate a lot of Shredded Wheat Cereal because that is all I wanted. Feeling better now. Blessings So liquid fasting breakfast, stopped drinking coca cola and stopped eating ice cream, has left me feeling un-spiritual for certain. I don’t remember now when I started. Seems like Wednesday or Thursday after Resurrection Day. I am more exhausted than ever. This is entirely my fault though. I ate cereal for several days. It is all I wanted. More sleepy now than just driving, it is a damper on my body and in my body. I feel tired, despair in the fact that I must stay were I live even though it affects me in a negative way. Here is the consistent drive in the morning to work. On my birthday, the 14th, It took me two hours drive-to work because of car accidents. I started on the desperate journey to find a home closer to work. Looming over about twenty apartments on The Lists and Zillow each day and visiting two apartments each day at least. I look tired and feel I am sleep walking. I just told everyone I am just tired from driving which is true. Fasting, praying and reading the word, not all that for me. I wanted it to be so much more spiritual than it is for me. I feel bad and wore myself out looking for an apartment and working. Not sure if you all fasted for a while before? The good thing is, I stoped the flow of a curse word at the first syllable two times this week. That is the only curse words in this time frame so far, that tried to sneak out while speaking. This is the whole point of my fast. So yea👏 To purge out the auto draft of a curse word when I want to get a point across that I am serious ❣️ I ate some meat the last two days which helped a lot. I have to muster up some energy to move half my stuff back into the house today or tomorrow. I planned out where things are going and my coach mentioned going live in the community instead of writing posts.

Liquid Fasting up to 12:00 PM at 3 days in I am sharing my process with this community. Vulnerability is a value that I cherish. Routine: Walking my dogs early in the morning. My eyes seem to be noticing my surroundings. We are walking into the curb and my fur-babies stop multiple times along the way as usual. I look up and notice the repetition of lights on the third floor of a building across the pond. I saw them clearly with intensity of interest and feeling of awakening. I looked around at all the repetition around me and felt excited to take photos. I praised God for opening my heart and eyes to see His creation again. The elements and principles of art have been everywhere but I was grateful for the trees, water, birds, loud frogs and flowers. I notices all the textures but didn’t have an ounce of value for repetition. I was set for my day driving an hour to work and stayed awake the entire trip. Grateful and Thanksgiving in a new level of experiencing life around me. Sights and hearing became more alert.

Blessings for your week❣️ May you find peace, grace and favor in every need you have as your request finds the His of God and His Heart for your life. He will never leave you or forsake you. His Life Giving Spirit is in you and all around you in your every moment. You are not alone. Blessings , Renee

1. Where are you with your creative life right now? 2. What is Resurrection weekend showing you about yourself? If the weekend has passed, reflect on a meaningful resurrection weekend of sometime in the near present. 3. Let’s practice commenting on each persons post, supportive encouragement please and thank you. To really get into the creating of art that has a message, it is harder for most people to share their vulnerabilities with their art than using words. To create safe space here, let us practice vulnerability. All of my posts, are examples of what creative vulnerability looks like. If we don’t want to get into each others stories, there will not be vulnerable art making experiences. As a foundation in this beginning stage of this creative community, let’s engage in the most simplest of ways. We can all make this time together in the foundation stage building of this community count for something for yourself and for others, please. 🙏 Invitation for some creative vulnerability to connect with yourself and others in this community🤗 You can share your words and add art to it or a photo that represents your short story or not. But please show up and communicate something vulnerable about yourself. Not asking for depth here just the beginning of community building moments. 💕 These Lillies were vibrantly living in my garden that was left behind in a divorce situation. I am glad I have these photos of there yearly beauty always showing up at the right time. Beautiful

Reflecting on creating this community. I yearn to create art but I recognized I wasn’t creating for just myself. When I have others in mind, this helps me create. I began creating a course and developed a method. But I ran into my own creative roadblock. This community is the reason I am seeking to move beyond the block with a purpose. I know my creative block comes from my previous 10 yr marriage and the divorce process since 2011. Creating this community is very important to me. It provides the purpose that I need beyond myself to create art. I shifted gears from creating my method to and creating a strategy course to help others move through creative block. So I am taking notes on the process that I am currently going through and will soon begin creating some videos along these lines. I am doing this creative work with the community in mind, but need an outside source that I realized and signed up to two other art communities. One of these communities is Sktchy and the other is Pastel Workshop on Skool. They do cost money. I don’t have extra money but I did this anyway to take care of my own desire to create and nourish my mental health. I signed up for Sktchy 30 day drawing challenge #30faces30days. There are several artists that teach through the drawing process on video. These are the drawings so far. I also signed up for a pastel painting workshop to keep my interest moving forward. I including this as well. My work is currently behind the scenes. I did put a pause on receiving any new members until 5/1. I feel it is better to build things out at some level before I accept any other people. As for as the three of us, I am going to continue to stay in touch and sharing the process. If we communicate together, it will benefit all of us during the process. If you feel you need to leave and come back because things are going as quickly as planned, feel free to take care of yourself how ever this may look. I you feel to continue with sharing some creativity and keep some conversation going, this is wonderful.