Our sweet exchange student Hyuna (Elle) from Korea is teaching me how to make soushi!
I changed the recepie a little...so that my friend Beth who is on a strickter anti-cancer diet could eat them too. We used brown rice, fresh vegies and curry pouder - no rice vinager . Don't they look yummy? I think if i can be creative with the food and use so many diffrent colors it is like painting. The focus is not so much of what we cannot eat but rather on the fresh colours and tast of what we are allowed to eat. If you have any special recepies - please e-mail them. Specially if they make our body system more alkaline.
May be i should paint those veggies that are so good for us. Am also experimenting with the ROSMARY bush in our drive way...an herb i was not to keen on, but it's oils have powerful healing propperties. Any one knows a lot about this?
But for now i am very excited to go to Rome and meet Dr. Simoncini a cancer specialist with alternative methodes, no chemo and really good results. After I will be in Switzerland to do all my blood tests and check ups...don't really feel sick with all the carrot juice i am drinking. Thank you all so much for your prayers interestings books and suggestions...all very helpful. The fall colors are amazing for the soul and I don't feel really like travelling , but am excited about this Rome connection that just surfaced. I will also connect with Hansruedi's family there. We used to see each other in Switzerland in the summer holidays, but we never made it "down south to Roma". I will be in Switzerland November 17 to 27. My sis's number is 001-41-44-915 01 19 my us cell is working text only 903-520 2879. God is so good...it seams that he is turning something bad into so many unexpected blessings!

SECOND CHAPTER OF ACTS CHILD

So many diffrent artists...with extreemly diffrent world views...and it shows so much in what we paint. But it was good to communicate with eachother. I just finished the FETUS painting 2 hours before the art show started...the painting was easy...the baby appeared with out me planning it when i applied the salt...and later i saw the nail prints in his feet and hands ..so i made them a little stronger...someone who looked at the painting during the exhibition told me that she saw a tear drop. whow...i had a good talk with a very young girl about my faith and belive that life starts at conception!
You can e-mail me for a free digital image at charlottekrusi@gmail.com or call my cell at 903-520-2879

This quote from Jim Elliot has impacted me for years:
"HE IS NO FOOL WHO GIVES WHAT HE CANNOT KEEP TO GAIN WHAT HE CANNOT LOSE"
He was killed at a young age...many would think before his time...1927-1956. He died at 29...his young widow Elisabeth carried our his mission. It is worth to google Elisabeth Elliot.
This angel is inspired by Fra Angeliso who lived 500 years ago:) We think we are so important and knowlegebal..our truth rocks...but just reading a biographie of Leonardo ...they had exactly the same struggles and revelations as we have today. May be a little diffrent lifestiles?

Just finished this pineapple painting yesterday for an art exhibit in our downtown with lots of young people...some older ones like me too:) Would realy like to finish the series on the fruits of the spirit..write about the impact of the spiritual fruits to our health and and and than the helth benefits from eating fresh fruits...The vitamines, the enzimes etc.
Paul Baloch gave me his i-pod today...not with worship music but an intresting messsage for cancer patients. The peace with-in is so important. Only you Jesus can give peace and TRUE JOY that last through the valleys till we see you face to face!

This is the cake that was waiting for me when i came home with my pathology results...i put the plate on an antique Bible illustrated by Julius Schnorr. It has the Holy Spirit dove and also a heart shape but it is made of a crown of thorns...should really take a separate picture. Out of the crown of thorns grow inticate passion flowers. Still waiting on my passionflowers to appear...struggled all year to save the plant. I have nice green leaves now. Thanks to the rain we got! There is deep symbolisme in all this...and strenght.
Today i was chasing this butterfly...he is a little injured but still very beautiful and active...will try to paint him on my tulip painting. Am so greatful for all the uplifting immages that come in my mind and glad I was in the habit of feeding my spirit and mind with those immages long before the diagnoses.

YOUR LOVING KINDNESS

Well, today is a special day...not a day to celebrate...or may be yes? NO! YES, i will celebrate the Lords kindness to me trough so many years and people. My daughter Mariana had this beautiful heart cake backed on a plate when i came home from one of my most difficult doctor appointments. It did not say: welcome to the circle of cancer patients....Just MUM...At this point i still do hate the word cancer...I had to read my "pathology report" over and over.....and eventhough the nurse read me the thing over the phone 10 days ago there is this secret thought that it is all a missunderstanding. But anyhow it is nearly midnight and my artsy friend Jorden visited and we were talking about the human heart. Suddenly I had this picture popping up in my head: the human heart is like jellow...if the Lord does not poor it into a strong jellow mold or pan...fancy shape?...it will just spill over in all wrong directions.
It was acctualy good getting so many calls today...Dan from Switzerland, sis, Karen, Frank Dr. Tim from California - explaining all the fancy pathology words. Before this i didn't even understand the proper translation of Lymphoma!
So this is the next painting i would like to do about the human heart...the ones below are more how the Holy Spirit guards and influences our hearts....penetrates it with his light. So half of me is truely soaring in the spirit realm and the other is worring a bit if I will not be able to eat Swiss chocolate anymore, no toast, no cappuccino, no meat ...thank you God that I love carrot juice...but it is a real spiritual fast to drink that that beautiful orange color stuff all day long. I'll crave pizza in the evening. Should i switch to lentils with tofu? Anyhow am tired now and can only think of the song YOUR LOVING KINDNESS IS BETTER THAN LIVE. I learned it over 30 years ago....still love the melody. I see myself doing cart wheals :)