Tag: inspiration

  • The Emotionally Difficult Painting

    I have a very close friend who is going through a very difficult time. Two months ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She asked me to go with her to her doctor visits, since I was a nurse for over 20 years, to help “translate” the medical jargon. As we went to these visits…

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  • Worse Before It Gets Better: Dream

    A few weeks ago, I had another dream.  In the dream, I was next to a beautiful river filled with clear cool water, with a golden sandy beach, and Jesus was walking with me. We talked about numerous things, and then He told me “I want you to know something. Things will start to look…

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  • Hope for Difficult Times

    These are difficult times we are living in as a nation. The COVID panic has caused disruption in our lifestyles, our relationships (when lockdowns limited face-to-face interactions) and anxiety as the news media reports new variants on the virus, and the potential for further limitation of personal freedoms. In the midst of this, there is…

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  • After the Storm: Inspirational

    As I was thinking on some Bible verses today, a picture came to mind which I painted. This painting represents a flower that has been through a terrible storm (see the lightening on the right), but the storm actually brought it rain, which helped it to grow. And after the storm, revival (represented by the…

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  • Pumpkins

    I have a friend who absolutely loves pumpkins, so for Hanukkah, I painted her a picture of pumpkins piled up on straw, based on a photo I took in Hillsdale, MI last fall. She loved the painting (said I could post it here). But I also feel that these pumpkins symbolize a bit more. Each…

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