#010 love your neighbor

matthew 22:39-40
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

This is part deux of last week's design, which was the first greatest commandment. This one is the second greatest :)

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#009 love the lord your god

FINALLY! I feel so sorry to have neglected this project for weeks. My days have been terribly crazy because of school and I have to admit that apparently I'm now not used of being busy. I think it's getting better, though. I'm doing much better managing my schedule this week, so I should be back on track! :)

matthew 22:36-38
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.

So, this is February and it's famous for being the month of love, because of the Valentine's day, of course. I read this verse a couple days ago and I just can't get it out of my mind. And then last night I stumbled across this beautiful flash animation from the famous Dong Haeng website. If you've never watched it, you really should. What a reminder from God!

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#008 the plague of frog

Exodus 8:1-6
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.  The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.’ ”  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’ ” So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land.

So, I am now done with Genesis on my One Year Bible reading, yay! It's quite a milestone for me, alright. :) I read Exodus 8 today, which is mostly tells us the story of the plagues that God brought to Egypt because Pharaoh wouldn't let the Israel people to leave Egypt.

Okay, this design might be really creepy for some people. I don't have any intention at all to scare you! I just think that this is a reminder that God can do anything to defend His people who believes in Him, to include flooding the city with frogs. If this is not creepy enough, I might do the plague of flies tomorrow :) *lol*

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#007 five loaves and two fish

Matthew 14:17-21

“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. 
“Bring them here to me,” He said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. 

"Jesus Feeds The Five Thousand" miracle is probably one of the most famous miracles that Jesus did. I remember learning about it ever since I was little. When I read this passage today, though, I learned something new about this marvelous story. 

Jesus used whatever they currently have at that point, which were the five loaves and the two fish... something very, very ordinary. When he began to give thanks, then something extraordinary started to happen. I took it as a reminder that God can use whatever we have in our hands, even the most average, unattractive things, as long as we are being grateful and thankful. Often times, we look at what other people have, compare it to what we have, and then we started to feel envious. Going back to the miraculous story, I believe that when we start to be thankful of God's blessings, something extraordinary will happen. :)

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i'm out...

... for the rest of the week! I'm about to go out of town in a few minutes. I actually have a wallpaper for today. The design is done and I just didn't have the time to resize and upload, sorry! I'll just keep it for Monday.

See you in Monday :)

#006 not the healthy

Err... apologize for skipping two days! No worries, I'm still here and I'm not giving up, haha. I haven't been feeling well for the last couple of days (and today as well :(), and not to mention, I've been really busy, too.

I've actually been thinking a lot about this project. It actually takes a good amount of time. So, I'm thinking of a way to cut down on time and do it more effectively. Ah, I know this is not even the end of January! Not that I'm giving up, but I'm trying to make this project more doable in the midst of my busy days, especially with the school coming up. I just don't want this to end up being a burden for me, while I intended it to be a daily creative outlet and just pure fun.

Anyway, we'll see. Here's today's wallpaper :)

Matthew 9:10-13
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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#005 our father in heaven

Have a good weekend all!

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#004 do not worry

matthew 6:25-27
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

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#003 salt of the earth

I'm doing something that's more of my design style today :) Not to mention, the lime green that I really like, which represents "the earth".

The verse is from Matthew 5:13, "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?" I love it. What a wisdom. I think this is such a good reminder for us. At least for me! :)

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#002 count the stars

So I survived another day! Ha. Good start :)

Today, I was inspired by the beautiful verse on Genesis 4:15. I'm such a visual person, so whenever I read something I try to visualize. I can imagine when God was talking to Abraham, He took Abraham outside and then showed the (almost) uncountable twinkling stars in the dark night sky. Abraham looked up and probably got choked up and teary eyed. At least, I would be :)

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#001 let there be light

I think this verse is so very appropriate to start off this project. I got this when I was just reading the beginning of Genesis last week. Yep, I'm trying to start reading the bible all over again, following this particular one-year-reading system from YouVersion. It's been great so far :)

This design is actually based on a typography project I did a while ago in college.

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One note, though: I was not planning to spend more than 30 minutes a day doing this project. I want this to be a fun, creative, but quick project. Apparently, coming up with a good idea, executing it, resizing it to several wallpaper sizes, and post them to the web takes a while. Especially the resizing part. Today I spent more than 20 minutes alone on resizing. Sometimes I wish that all computers in the world have the same screen size dimension :) But they are not.

On this one, I've resized it to 9 different sizes. However, next time I think I might just reduce it. The reason is so that this can actually be something I'm sure I can be faithful on doing everyday, instead of just a boring resizing project :) My plan is that if you want to request a particular size of a particular design, give me a shout and I'll post that particular size for you. Good deal?

#000 intro

Hello and welcome!

Since the end of last year, I've been contemplating on doing "something-a-day" project to challenge myself creatively. I promise you it was not because I watched Julie and Julia :) So, at the end of December 2009, I was writing down my 2010 resolution and one of my high-priority resolution was to spend more time reading the Bible. I thought that I could probably combine it with my attempt on doing "something-a-day" project.

And then, Light of Days was officially born.

I know I said that it's a "day-to-day" project, but in reality, Saturday is when I go to church and often becoming my really-really-busy day. Sunday is when I try to do absolutely nothing and just spend time with my hubby. So, I'll just be committing to do it every workdays for now. Knowing how easily distracted I could be most times, it's a challenge in itself already!

It's a project that tackles my discipline, spiritual maturity, and creativity, all at the same time. I'm interested to see how it all coming to be at the end of 2010! I hope you are following my journey :)