Tessellate. I woke up to that word running through my thoughts. Really? Tessellate? Images of M.C. Escher’s work floated through my consciousness (or subconsciousness) as I pondered the meaning of the word. “What are You trying to say to me Lord?” So, before I began my daily journal entry, I went to the dictionary. No help. […]
Read More »There is was! Smack in the middle of the workshop I was teaching. We were talking about tag lines. For weeks, I had been struggling to find the right words to express what the Lord had spoken to me when He asked me to shepherd His army of artistic warriors. “I help artists to…” I started. An […]
Read More »I went walking the other day. It was a morning full of frustration and battling discouragement. I arrived at my usual track and spotted a hawk taking off from the trees. “Stop and Watch” I heard the Lord whisper. “I have something to show you.” Hawks have always been a confirming sign of God’s Presence […]
Read More »Now is the time! Now is the time for artistic warriors to sharpen their swords of the Spirit. Now is the time for artists to step out in their God-given destiny as communicators of heaven’s truths. Now is the time to gather together, to link arms and come together as the army of the Lord Now […]
Read More »The End Times. The Last Days. Two phrases that are being thrown around quite a bit these days. Attention turns to the Middle East. To Israel. To Missouri. And there you sit at your easel, your computer, or keyboard and guitar, feeling “less than”. After all, how does your pursuit of artistic expression make any difference […]
Read More »You are on a roll. Focused and in the zone, you tackle your to do list, your next big project, a new schedule for quiet time, that thing which has been calling your name. Then it happens. Resistance. Uncertainty. Frustration. According to author Steven Pressfield (The War of Art and Do the Work!) any act […]
Read More »In the days of wide open spaces and wilderness, traveling by rail could be a dangerous business. I’m not talking about danger brought about by humans, but by any number of animals that could just happen to be ambling across the tracks at the precise time that a locomotive was scheduled. Enter British engineer Charles […]
Read More »“Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.” Matthew 9: 37-38 The harvest is ripe for the picking, but not every field is ready to be harvested. There are places (and people) that are […]
Read More »“Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I commanded you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.” Jeremiah 1:17. The Word of the Lord: “Do not be overwhelmed by what I ask you to do.” “Do not let your ideas of whom I […]
Read More »“Then the Lord said to me, ‘You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it’.” Jeremiah 1: 12 Are you carrying a vision? A phrase that is a “Word of the Lord” for your life? A “to do” from heaven? The Lord says rest in the fact that He watches over […]
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