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The Lord is my Surgeon
I love personalizing Psalm 23 according to what I’m going through. You can see various examples in this post about the Lord as my Teacher, with links to other examples too. This rendition is perhaps the most personal as I get my hip replaced! Thank you to all those who have sent encouraging comments and…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Church life
Churches are going through a strange and different time during the coronavirus pandemic, aren’t they. Services moved to Zoom, Facebook live, and YouTube during lockdown, and then over the summer we got to meet again in person – spread out, masked, keeping distant. But still meeting together. This second lockdown in England has been tough…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Finding Jesus through prayer
My dad has entitled this painting, “Finding Peace with Jesus through Prayer.” We so often find peace when we’re out in nature, don’t we. There’s something about being able to exhale in God’s creation that helps take us out of ourselves and our concerns as we look up to God and ponder the needs of…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Disposable art?
This painting no longer exists – my dad painted it over, saying it was such a nice big canvas (it’s rather large). I rather like it, but I always enjoy his more abstract works and love a nice cityscape. So is this still art? What is art if it’s disposable? A friend posed a provocative…
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Watercolor Wednesday: God with us
My dad’s been out in his art studio lots these days as he’s creating paintings for our Christmas book (Celebrating Christmas, coming autumn 2021). This is one of his more abstract ones that we’re not including, but I love it all the same. The theme is the Incarnation, God with us, and the mystery of…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Just right
When you’re in the midst of a creative project, do you know when to press pause or to stop? Today my dad and I had a zoom call with our publisher on Celebrating Christmas, the book of art and reflections that we’ll be releasing for Christmas 2021. Dad was saying how in creating paintings he has…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Those were the days…
I’m missing fall in the States this year; the photographs from the upper Midwest in particular are lovely with the bright splodges of red, orange, and yellow. I don’t know that I would have gone back, but knowing that it wasn’t even a possibility makes the longings a bit stronger. I love this cheerful painting…
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Watercolor Wednesday: Pause and ponder
Stop and pause for a few moments and let yourself imagine that you’re settled into a cabin (rustic or not – your preference) by a shimmering lake. You can see rocks and the weeds growing by the water with trees blowing in the breeze in the distance. You take a deep breath and release any…
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Watercolor Wednesday: A bit of the abstract
I don’t know what scene my dad was painting here – was it a little town in Germany that he glimpsed when they went on their riverboat trip a few years back? Perhaps. I like how this painting evokes a feeling of intrigue because of its abstract nature. That’s true in life, too, I suppose…
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Watercolor Wednesday: A faithful creature
Swans are beautiful creatures, but can be fierce if you’re in their territory. I wouldn’t want to get between a mother and her young! You probably know that they mate for life. I was interested to hear that a study of swans found no infidelity among the couples where they had had offspring together. They…
