Washed By the Water

Don’t you just love it when something comes together when you didn’t really expect it to?  That’s how I feel about today’s art.  Last night, I started yet another piece to help me deal with a recent less than wonderful experience.  I left that encounter very disturbed by humanity and how very far we are from God’s intended design in how we treat one another.  The ugliness of that place lingered and aside from the obvious I couldn’t understand why.  Until I asked God – Ha, why is it I always try to figure it out on my own first! With His wisdom it became clear, once again, I was choosing to believe in the lie which tells me I am a failure.  I had this vision of a person kneeling on the bible as their foundation, broken and in need, while the cleansing water of God’s grace and forgiveness washed their sins away.  

This is my attempt to paint what he brought to my mind. It is based on: Hebrews 10:22-23 “let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”  

Washed By the Water
16x20 Acrylic on Canvas

He is faithful.  All he requires is a sincere and repentant heart and He will wash us clean. Amen!    

* Sorry the picture is a bit unclear and poorly cropped - the writing on the bible is Hebrews 10:22-23

In Progress

I've been working on a few pieces lately - as the mood strikes. I guess that is why none of them are finished. I've had a battle with the roller coaster lately - or rather the battle to not get on the roller coaster - so I decided to start yet another piece today to sort out my head. It's a combination of scriptures which have spoken deeply to me and a "vision" given to me during prayer. Vision is such a weird word but I don't really have any other way to describe how God communicates to me in color, pictures and emotion. I often wonder if this happens for anyone else; the mysterious, undefinable burst of technicolor images that flood me with feeling so deep it's like my very core was touched with the softest of whispers. Every once in a rare while they even come with scents; it's the craziest thing, my head.
So this is the beginning:

Still lots to do...maybe again tomorrow. Or, I will work on one of my other pieces. My abstract on grace has been on my mind quite a bit. It's been a bit neglected - roller coasters are not good for abstracts on grace. Well, unless maybe you're painting a abstract roller coaster which I'm not. So, no es bueno.

Hmmm...we shall see what tomorrow brings.