How Do You React When God Tells You Hard Things (or Allows Difficult Things to Happen?)

[Kainos]

One of the things that banned person said was that I had told her something I never had (she in fact had a long long list of lies, about me as well as others), and my post history clearly contradicts what she said. I really don't think they had any idea of what it is I am actually doing, or what is allowed with the images I collect, but that is still no reason for them to go on the way they do, and I seriously wonder what is wrong with some of these people.

Your accuser won't accuse you in accordance with truth or fact, he's just out to discourage you from augmenting spiritual heart-to-hearts and head-to-heads with your to the purpose art.

You have a distinctive way of emphasizing scripture quotes and verses, with relevancy and significance. And your designs are an illustration of the seat of your creativity and your faith. A symphony of colour, texture, and good news.

I'd want to throw cold water on your warm tones too if I was batting for the enemy. Don't let anyone deter you from doing what you do, for as long as you are led to do it.

 

[ATSTD]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! It's not steady just so you know. I have my bad days and moments of fear and distrust. It's a lifelong endeavor to learn to trust the Lord and his promises.

I think what made it easy for me when my grandmother passed is she is the one who told me to call out Jesus’s name when I was losing my mind. So when she passed, I knew she was going to a better place and I wasn’t affected by her death at all.

 

[Magenta]

Your accuser won't accuse you in accordance with truth or fact, he's just out to discourage you
from augmenting spiritual heart-to-hearts and head-to-heads with your to the purpose art.

You have a distinctive way of emphasizing scripture quotes and verses, with relevancy and significance. And your
designs are an illustration of the seat of your creativity and your faith. A symphony of colour, texture, and good news.

I'd want to throw cold water on your warm tones too if I was batting for the enemy.
Don't let anyone deter you from doing what you do, for as long as you are led to do it.

Thank you for your very kind words! I am always on the lookout for some verse inspiration or collection of
verses to include on a panel... do you have any you would like to see? Generally speaking, it cannot be a lot.
I have had the opposite situation also, where one verse, if very short, was not enough text on a panel. LOL

 

[Kainos]

Thank you for your very kind words! I am always on the lookout for some verse inspiration or collection of
verses to include on a panel... do you have any you would like to see? Generally speaking, it cannot be a lot.
I have had the opposite situation also, where one verse, if very short, was not enough text on a panel. LOL

Isaiah 11:6

A fitting verse for an evocative imagination.

 

[Magenta]

Isaiah 11:6

A fitting verse for an evocative imagination.

Thank you! And I am quite surprised that I have not done that one yet! Also, I am curious, because I am seeing something new and wondering if others do too? The Logos software is now auto connecting to display any verse citation when you hover over the link. That means that when I hide the verse citation under a panel of mine, which I do by making the font white so it basically cannot be seen, the verse itself now turns into a link which can be seen! This just started happening today... The reason why I would add the verse citation is so that if anyone (including myself) looked at my post stream, they could see something as opposed to nothing, as images with no accompanying text just show up as a blank in the post stream, meaning, you can see a post was made but there is no info about the post itself beyond showing which thread and forum it is in, and date ETC. I am also having a terrible time staying connected on my laptop (at work), which is having a whole host of other problems due to storage issues. Ugh!!!

 

[Magenta]

Hope all's good and hugs dear friend, wondering if you might like to post a thread, outlining/demonstrating your production of a panel occasionally? Seriously doubt i'm the only one who'd really enjoy such an activity session, similar thinking behind my hoping to get a film club going.


Know where you're coming from for sure dear friend, attracting a fair bit of malice/spite myself on one of my posts. Really love forums like this where people are in touch with their humanity too. Actually, i do prefer being a target to having that dark a mind or heart, hope you think similarly and don't let anyone grind you down, you're lovely.


Blessings and hugs for now Magenta, all that's good to you and your dear ones.

Thank you dear one, and hugs to you also! Due to your appreciation of what I have been doing with Grace, I designed two more with her, heh, now I do believe this is a first for me to use the same woman in so many panels consecutively. I have before used different parts of one image a number of times before, but not back to back, although I did late last year, after beginning to generate my own AI images, redo my welcome message using a couple of different images of Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly, against an array of various backgrounds paired up with her real face blended into my AI generated figures. Anywho, I have quite a few times over the years shown my process when there has been interest, and I could direct you to some of them if I find them (LOL), though right now I want to show you the newer Grace Kelly panels, at least one of them, anyways, because I am not yet happy with the second one, which is number four (I had a Proverbs verse waiting for me to use on a panel and I was itching to get it out there, but not yet, apparently). Even with this one I am about to show you, I worked on it for hours with a different background paired up with the face, and then decided, ugh, I need to change it, and so tried a few different ones, and settled on the one you will see. All this while my machine struggles to function at all because my C drive is failing and I have to constantly restart, and deal with crashes LOL. Plus I am at work and my laptop keeps disconnecting from the network even though my phone stays connected. But I need the laptop because that is where all the images are...

Starting with this AI woman I generated:

And then blending in this Grace Kelly face:

Working on it for the longest time with this AI generated background:

Which I decided to change near the end and chose this AI gen after trying a few others:

To end up with this final:

 

[LifelongLearner]

Thank you dear one, and hugs to you also! Due to your appreciation of what I have been doing with Grace, I designed two more with her, heh, now I do believe this is a first for me to use the same woman in so many panels consecutively. I have before used different parts of one image a number of times before, but not back to back, although I did late last year, after beginning to generate my own AI images, redo my welcome message using a couple of different images of Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly, against an array of various backgrounds paired up with her real face blended into my AI generated figures. Anywho, I have quite a few times over the years shown my process when there has been interest, and I could direct you to some of them if I find them (LOL), though right now I want to show you the newer Grace Kelly panels, at least one of them, anyways, because I am not yet happy with the second one, which is number four (I had a Proverbs verse waiting for me to use on a panel and I was itching to get it out there, but not yet, apparently). Even with this one I am about to show you, I worked on it for hours with a different background paired up with the face, and then decided, ugh, I need to change it, and so tried a few different ones, and settled on the one you will see. All this while my machine struggles to function at all because my C drive is failing and I have to constantly restart, and deal with crashes LOL. Plus I am at work and my laptop keeps disconnecting from the network even though my phone stays connected. But I need the laptop because that is where all the images are...

Starting with this AI woman I generated:

And then blending in this Grace Kelly face:

Working on it for the longest time with this AI generated background:

Which I decided to change near the end and chose this AI gen after trying a few others:

To end up with this final:

Posted a reply to another panel of yours and saw another panel with an image based on her face. Your panels are gorgeous and i love you explaining the origins, it's really interesting and you have real creative talent.

Playing with my new toy, maiden voyage for this particular rig, only built it today! Blessings and hugs wise, lovely friend, see you soon.

 

[Magenta]

Isaiah 11:6

A fitting verse for an evocative imagination.

Isaiah 11:6 ~ The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
Thank you for the inspiration! I hope you and yours are well .

The man was AI gen, pretty sure by me, started out looking like this:

Looking for something to watch on Netflix, came across this actor
(Luke Roberts) in a series I have not watched, blended his face in:

The ai face was very cold to begin with, so I did very much correct it to warmer tones, but I think
Luke's face is still too red, which I cannot always tell in my program, as things look different on the
white boards than they do on the dark charcoal background of photoshop. Also I usually like to see
a face under a few different ambient conditions to get the best balance between all of them, as
any one image can look remarkably different in different lighting situations.

Must give a shout out to @TabinRivCA as she is always encouraging me to employ more male figures in my panels, and
I must thank you, Tabs, for your birthday wishes. I knew you would not forget with your dad's birthday being the same day!

I thought I posted this already. Haha. I must have gotten distracted...

Isaiah 11:6 ~ The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
I put a colour correction on the man... let's see how he looks now... still a bit on the red/magenta side...

 

[LifelongLearner]

Isaiah 11:6 ~ The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
Thank you for the inspiration! I hope you and yours are well .

The man was AI gen, pretty sure by me, started out looking like this:

Looking for something to watch on Netflix, came across this actor
(Luke Roberts) in a series I have not watched, blended his face in:

The ai face was very cold to begin with, so I did very much correct it to warmer tones, but I think
Luke's face is still too red, which I cannot always tell in my program, as things look different on the
white boards than they do on the dark charcoal background of photoshop. Also I usually like to see
a face under a few different ambient conditions to get the best balance between all of them, as
any one image can look remarkably different in different lighting situations.

Must give a shout out to @TabinRivCA as she is always encouraging me to employ more male figures in my panels, and
I must thank you, Tabs, for your birthday wishes. I knew you would not forget with your dad's birthday being the same day!

I thought I posted this already. Haha. I must have gotten distracted...

Isaiah 11:6 ~ The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
I put a colour correction on the man... let's see how he looks now... still a bit on the red/magenta side...

That is fabulous precious friend, what a recognisable but pretty major transformation. Also thinking he'd have made a more attractive/relatable Rhett Butler than Clark Gable.

Really will sort some stuff out now, blessings and hugs for now dear friend.