Tag: Christmas

Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men: Leaving Our Imprint (Week 4)

Posted on December 24, 2019May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

We are hours away from a Merry Christmas and we are all busy, hopefully spending time with loved ones and friends. Our wish at Human Art is that all your tasks are complete, and you are now spending quality time with those that are closest to you. Whether your tasks run into Christmas Day or not, it is a good time to take a break for a small minute and make spending time one of the tasks to check off your holiday list. It will benefit all those around you. If you need to slow down, then possibly make a few of the items on your list spending time with others this last couple of days before Christmas. Make it as much of a priority as a present or a dinner.

The Blackened design is known for this. It is steady in getting all of the tasks that need to be done lined up and accomplished. It brings them joy to see it all completed. So put quality time and being in the moment on your list so you can take in the holidays and be present for those you love. If we make it important, or a task, we will be more likely to do it and those are the things others will remember and will be lasting.

3 Things a Blackened Person Leaves with Us (Their Imprint):

Security
Hope
Stability

These are things that you cannot wrap up but are some of the best gifts you can give. It is a comfort or protection to those you spend your time with. Stop and evaluate how much time you have spent with your loved ones compared to how much time you desire to spend with each of them and make sure they line up. It will enhance your holiday experience.

Remember everyone is a masterpiece.

Brook

Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men: Leaving Our Imprint (Week 3)

Posted on December 18, 2019May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

Over the week I have seen many examples of people leaving their imprint. It shows up when they leave goodies on someone’s porch, when they carol, I even heard a Christmas message delivered in a way that illuminated that person’s personality traits that were very attractive and warm. I witnessed a couple entertaining friends with a song on a piano and even their interactions with each other were so sweet and charming that it left an imprint of them as a couple on the entire group that night. It seems to come out at Christmas more than any other time of year. It lends itself to connections and reevaluating ourselves to see where we want to grow.

The Grayed person, or someone with a lot of Grayed in their design, is a great example of this kind of act or dynamic that leads to leaving their imprint on someone, because they value connection. They instinctively look for connections in all that they do.

Three Things a Grayed Person Leaves With Us (Their Imprint):

A Sense of Calm
Things to Ponder
A Feeling of Connection

These are great things to feel in our lives and also great things to bring into our lives. As we find ourselves on the doorstep of that great Christmas day, as we do our last minute errands, make one of those errands be to leave our imprint somewhere, and do it in a way that brings peace. It cannot help but enhance the Christmas season and make all those we encounter walk away better than when we got there. Remember, everyone is a masterpiece.

Brook

Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men: Leaving Our Imprint (week 2)

Posted on December 12, 2019May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

As we talked last week about our individual imprint that we leave when we interact with others, it got us all thinking here at Human Art this week. We have had many discussions on how others might experience our personality, or in simple terms, what affect we have on others. We dove deeper into that concept and we became very curious as to how we leave people feeling when they experience our personality or design. It occurred to us that our design could be experienced in a positive or a negative way, depending on how we use it to interact with others. It became very important to us that we used our design to leave peace, wherever we had the chance to interact with someone. That is especially important to us at Christmas time. “Good will towards men.”

The Whitened person is a master at that when they are interacting in their authenticity. They love it when everyone is happy, so they are drawn to positivism and to upbeat interactions. They seem to share a desire to leave others in a happier state when they interact with them.

3 Things a Whitened Person Leaves With Us When They Serve Us (Their Imprint):
Lightheartedness
Belonging
Enrolling

As we find ourselves in the middle of the holiday season it is great to give gifts and provide activities, but make sure some of the gifts are small acts of kindness in that Whitened way. To the degree that you have Whitened in your design or personality, is the degree you will want to serve in this way. It is a great way to serve others at this Christmas time.

Remember, everyone is a masterpiece.

Brook

Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men: Leaving Our Imprint

Posted on December 3, 2019May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

One of the things I have always appreciated about the holidays is the carols. Nothing seems to bring in Christmas like a good Christmas song. It creates a feeling in the air that is like no other. Whether you hear it on the radio in your car, in the stores, or just have it playing in your home around the Christmas tree, it is a sure way to ring in the holiday feeling.

“PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN,” is a familiar line that we all know and sing. One way that we can offer “peace on earth” or spread “good will towards men” is when we do small acts of kindness—but it’s important that we do it in our way. Just like the song The Little Drummer Boy when he came to see “the newborn King,” he had nothing to offer except his gift, his

abilities, his talents, so he used just that and he played for Him. It is a great display of sharing authenticity.

I call this an imprint. Just like the little drummer boy, when we want to offer “good will towards men” we offer ourselves in an organic way, in our design. And when we leave, we have left something with that person or persons that we served—our imprint. It is a feeling, an example experienced in a way that no one else can offer. These are the times that our effect leaves others wanting to be better for it.

3 Things the Saturated Person Leaves With Us When They Serve Us (Their Imprint):
Quiet Dignity
Quality Outcome
Simplicity

As we enter this Christmas season it is great to give gifts, but make sure some of these gifts are a display of our authenticity. It will serve all those we come in contact with. Some of the people you affect might not even be observable, they might just notice it from afar. It still has the same impact. Remember that you are unique in your design and you do leave an imprint wherever you go. Make it count this year. Remember, everyone is a masterpiece.

Brook

Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin With Me

Posted on December 24, 2018May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

Merry Christmas from all of us at Human Art!

Each week of this December we have been highlighting a different Christmas song. It has brought an added measure of the Christmas spirit around here. Because we picked a song to focus on each week, it created an environment where the words of the song were on all our minds as we went about our work week. More importantly, we found ourselves talking about the songs with each other. These were not planned conversations, they just happened here and there, spontaneous exchanges of what each person saw in the meaning or words of the song we had selected.

This week was no exception, but for me the words rang quietly yet still powerfully in my mind leading up to Christmas day. “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.” Such a beautiful song. A wish of sorts, “Peace on earth.” We would all love that but it’s really such a big order. How could one person like me even begin to contribute to an overall effect of “Peace on earth”? Some days I would wonder if it was just a cliché, other days I would really have a desire to make a difference—but how? Then I thought about the rest of the phrase “and let it begin with me.” Could I really, as one person, make a difference when it came to peace on earth? Could it really begin with me or you?

I know that I have definitely tried. I seriously have no idea how much of a difference I have made as I travel around spreading the message of Human Art. I do not know if I have changed the life one person, many, or possibly none, but I know that it has changed mine. The people that I have met. The conversations that I have experienced, and the friends that are important to me have brought so much happiness into my life and I think in a small way that is a form of peace. It is from my point of view.

Anytime a conversation or interaction that is good or kind is taking place instead of something negative, I think that is a form of peace. I believe it has the potential to change the earth. Maybe not in a large way, but in a small space where that exchange is taking place at that moment. A mother that is calm instead of caught up in the stress of the season. Maybe someone at work that stops to listen instead of trying to get out the door quickly. How about a person in a long line being patient instead of aggravated at the length of the line and the time it is taking. Just being kind and serving however you can. Most importantly, just celebrating each person’s design or personality instead of fighting to be right.

Maybe that is what the song is singing out, maybe it is not one big act to create peace on earth but millions of little ones in tiny spaces. Maybe that is the very form of peace that it is referring to. What if that was the call to action? The notes seem to pause and beg for it and the words tell us what to do.

It’s Christmas: open presents, eat Christmas dinners, be with your family and friends, but where ever you are when you read this, pause in that space and create a little of that kind of peace, peace on earth… and let it begin with you. It will be worth it because everyone deserves peace, and everyone is a masterpiece.

Brook