"Horizons of Blessing"

"Horizons of Blessing"

12x24

Acrylic on Canvas

     I've been working on pet portraits lately, fulfilling some Christmas commissions.  I started this piece before the commissions and really wasn't happy at first.  Today, I got back in the studio and reworked the road.  I like it much better.  While contemplating the title, I just couldn't see anything except "Horizons".  I had to consider all sorts of things.  Things like, "what's on the horizon', to the hope and light that is on the horizon, to the people that I love that seem to have nothing on the horizon.  That makes me gloomy.  But, when I painted this, everything was bright for me, and still is. My son had just come home from many a year separation!  My only granddaughter had been introduced to me, my other two boys and grandchildren are healthy, my husband and I are healthy, and we all love the Lord Jesus!  My children are taught of the Lord and they are blessed.  We are blessed in the city and blessed in the land!  Somehow this painting reminds me of that Blessing.

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Seasons

"Seasons"

     This Thanksgiving season was a season of my life!  Such a thankful season...one in which brought reality to the impossible.  One that reminds me of so many things.  This is a picture of feasting at the table.  Not really my table, but at the table of the Lord.  He sets it for us.  Even among our enemies.  Although the enemy is certainly not sitting at this table, he is the one that prevented this setting for so many years.  But MY God!  He is the one that redeems.  He's the God of the impossible.  He is the God of hope.  The one that calls things that are not into the "are".  Anyone that knows me, knows.  They know that this is a true picture of the power of God.  It's the picture of the impossible becoming reality.  It's the picture of Hope.  Hope in the power of God to watch over his word to perform it.  It's similar to Abraham and Sara...facing the facts of dead bodies, and life coming forth!  Our family was dead, and now new life!  Welcome Brent!  Welcome Tammy!  Welcome Natalie!  Welcome! I am now believing in another impossible.  We call her in, in the name of Jesus!  Thank you Lord for seasons of restoration after seasons of suffering.