I was playing with the Paint Program which came installed on my Surface Pro. It is not as predictable or fancy as Sketchbook Pro, the art application I usually use. Quite often, for no reason I can discern, it does wacky things I don't ask it to do. It has no large round brush to give soft, blended edges, and no way to blend the watercolor effect, so I can rarely get the look I am after. It claims I can just dip my brush in water and use that presumably to blend like in real watercolor, but it doesn't seem to work. Perhaps I just am not figuring it out. Ok, not perhaps... LIKELY. Nonetheless, I almost never get the picture to match the vision in my head, and I go through stages of fury at the designer of such a limited program. In the end, I finally decide I have done all I can do, and call it a day. Usually with a mix of frustration and disgust, I save the picture in my file of sketches, and wonder if computers are a curse or a blessing.
Strangely, I often step back later, gaze at it, and discover the surprise picture that developed is oddly satisfying anyway. It isn't what I wanted, it wasn't what I intended, all my efforts to direct it the way I hoped had failed, but ultimately, I reached a place that I would not have reached on my own.
This is so often
just how God works in my life. Maybe I should learn to trust Him more.
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The heart of man plans his way, but the
Lord establishes his steps.
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