Saturday is the big art show at Ross Bridge. I'm excite and hopeful about the outcome of that. I just hope that I can keep my head up if for some reason I don't do as well as I expect to. Another exciting thing, I've got a client coming this evening to pick up the 2nd commission of my career as an artist. : ) Also when I get home from this weekends events I will be starting another commission! Yay, praise God I am getting a few bread crumbs along this path that I'm on. I must admit though that my relationship with God has sort of been on the back burner for close to two weeks now. I know it seems crazy to think, but I think that when due to my own selfish ambitions or lack of motivation to spend time with him, a lot of times I believe that God just uses those times to woo my heart back to him. I find that when I have been lacking that intimate reading time or quiet contemplation of God and His word, there is always a large part of me that is yearning for it. I don't know if you have ever heard the song, 'As the Deer Panteth' but the words are 'as the deer panteth for the water, so my soul longs after thee'. That describes me so well right now. It's as if I've been a deer running until I have started panting, and now all I want to do is return to the water so that I may get a drink and satisfy this thirst I have. I just found the verse that the song is based off of it in Psalms 42:1For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
Another one I would like to share that is a verse you may hear often, so it may have lost some of it's beauty, but try to hear it anew. Read it like you've never heard it before and it's so beautiful Isaiah 55:1 "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
In thinking about this verse I automatically have the comparison of the worldy view vs. the heavenly/eternal view. I think about how I can't go to walmart to get the things that I NEED without finding something in there that I want. I find myself wishing that I had the money to buy the things that I don't even truly need. With God, with his word and all of the great things that He has and gives me though I don't have to have a thing to get it. The only thing I have to do is to come. That's all He says, is come. So when I feel him woo my heart to follow or seek him out, I just come and enjoy having the things that I need without cost.
Here is a picture of the commission I just finished. It is a representation the black birds sitting on a line is a family, the momma bird with her three children, and there is one extra bird on the line, that represents the fiance soon to be husband that is now joining the family. The red-bird off in the distance represents a sibling that passed away. The painting is going to be used as a wedding gift to the mother, from her daughter. I LOVE the symbolism in it!
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