Simple Thoughts

I realized something today. There is something that happens to me every time I watch a painter create a picture on a canvas. It doesn't matter the type of canvas or the type of paint. It doesn't even matter what it is they are creating. What happens is this... I watch the creator paint, layer after layer, creating new levels of that painting, sewing the scene together with the different colors of paint. Every time I watch, I am intrigued and then, it gets to a level that I am perfectly pleased with (so I think). "It's done!" is what I think to myself. Then the painter will ruin the picture! A few white specks here, or black lines there... And I think, "Oh no!! They are messing it up!" But then that painter begins to work in those specks or lines and begins blending it into the painting... And then the random specks or lines become creative genius that I would have never thought to add to the painting that I thought was done. By the time the paint...