Hope for the Future

This is a piece that I did to fund raise for cancer patients.

I prayed and sensed the Lord was telling me to paint a rose.
It started out pink but then ended up more peach/pink.

When the painting was completely done -- I thought to myself there must be more to this story. Out of curiosity, I looked up the symbolic meaning of a peach/pink rose --- I was amazed to find it means "optimism for the future".

Isn't God good - He has plans of good and not of evil - that we can have hope. Jeremiah 29:11

Something Beautiful...

I was inspired by the Newsboys song called Something Beautiful. Sometimes its really hard to look for something beautiful -- or should I say to make a point of looking for something beautiful. Today was one of those days.

I spent the afternoon with my grandmother who is now 93 and in a home. I realized how I could no longer lean on her for strength - the tables have turned and she now needs to lean on me. I still loved just sitting with her - just being in her presence... even in the silence. We reminisced about skating on the pond and then going to a warm house to eat home-made cinnamon buns....

After talking for awhile, my grandmother and I headed for the lounge at the nursing home... there I saw a couple that were sitting admiring art. The wife was confined to a wheelchair & partially blind but she loved to paint. I overheard her husband praising her about her latest piece. She soaked it up - then reached over and held his hand. He told me, as he adjusted her necklace, that they had been married for 54 years many of which he bathed her, dressed her and changed her--- yet I admired how they still they looked into each others eyes like newlyweds - to me that was beautiful.
(please click on the newsboys youtube link on the right)

Valley of Decision - Joel 3 chapter 14

God you are so cool.
I painted this picture over a year ago. It represents to me the people that are from every tribe and every nation -- those that are waiting to hear about the gospel---those that are at a place of decision.

I met a Pastor and his wife - God started speaking to me that his church should have this painting. The Pastor told me later that Cindy Jacobs, a prophetess had spoken this scripture to him "Multitudes, Multitudes in the Valley of Decision.
All I want to be is Gods TV monitor!