Crayon Box Legacy

Staring at a blank page must be amongst the top 10 intimidating things in life. Whether it's for an essay, or a book, a blank page always seems to be a little too intimidating. Why is this? Perhaps it's because the possibilities are endless and the unknown can be daunting. Day by day, and year by year, we face the "blank page" of life and are given the liberty to fill it up and write whatever we please on it. Sometimes we scribble, sometimes we color beautifully, whatever we decide to fill the blank page with, is completly up to us. We decide. God provides the crayon box, and gently advises which colors we should choose in order to create a beautiful master piece, but in the end, we are the ones that decide which color crayon we pick. When things go wrong in our life, we often blame God and say it was His fault, when in reality, it was the "bully" that got his crayon and colored on our paper -not God. On our blank piece of paper, we are at liberty to create whatever we set our minds to. However, the "bully" has convinced us that the only thing we should color on our paper is staying in the lines of the picture, never changing the color. But colors were created for a reason, and lines were never meant to stop us, but to guide us when we were young. Now that we are older, we must realize we have the freedom to create whatever we want. We must stop coloring in the lines, if we all color in the lines, we all end up with the same picture. It's the ones bold enough to color beyond the lines with the prettiest pictures, the ones that use a lot of color, and listen to the advisory to utilize the entire crayon box.

Sometimes, we stay "in the lines" because we are afraid of what people will think if we are different, but what would've happened if Picasso was like every other artist and stayed in the lines? What if he never truly expressed himself and his unique art? If we all color the same way, with the same color, staying carefully in the same lines, none of our pictures will look different. It's the ones that are bold enough to do something different, to look weird, to be uncomfortable, and to be made fun of. These are the ones that will be remembered, these are the pictures that will look different, these are the lives that will live forever. These are the ones that leave a rememberable, impacting legacy, such as picasso did. Picasso was willing to be judged and misunderstood for his crazy art work, but that didn't stop him. We must not be afraid to do what others think we shouldn't, simply because they, theirselves are to scared to. In the end, the only one that needs to "approve" of our "masterpiece" is God, and ourselves. Like a father, God loves our beautiful messy, pictures, in fact, those are His favorite. The ones that don't have it all together, the ones that aren't afraid to be who He has made them to be. After all, to others, it may be a scribbly mess, but to Him, it's a perfect masterpiece that couldn't be any more beautiful.

If you haven't been able to figure it out by now, the "blank page" is your life, your years, your days. The crayons and colors, is what you do, who you are, what you become, your family, your friends, and everything that makes up YOUR life.

Don't be afraid to be YOU. God created Picasso as well as Monet. Don't be afraid to be bold, and be different. Use all of the colors in the crayon box, you decide the outcome of your masterpiece.
Live beautifully, spread color, because you yourself, are a crayon in someone else's "blank page"-be sure you're a bright one!