12″ x 15″, acrylic on hardboard, painted on location and in the studio (a little) 9-20-09.
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This is my penny painting for today. A study down on Kentuck road near Hangman creek. I did an initial lay in this morning, took it back home and developed it a little in the studio, and then went back to the location for most of the rest, and some little touches after that back home. Whew! I wish I could just finish them all on location but sometimes you need to pause from it. I am not sure about all of my little touches on this one, but I did the best I could to capture this spot. Artists sometimes struggle with this “over working” something, but I think that is an impossibility. Any step along the way is as valid as the end of the road. My photos are a torment to me as well, there is so much more in the paint than a photo can ever capture. I hope you hear my heart in this, I hope you feel my tears, this is the earth I love, this is the glorious land of you and I anf our Father in Heaven.
Welcome to New Earth.
These past four days have been great. I worked on a larger painting of one of Joy’s (retired) horses that she loved, “Secrets”. This painting may still be in progress, not sure. It is done from a photo she had. But Joy seems to like it, thats all that matters to me. It is in my heart to paint what people want to see, perhaps from photos or a jotting.
The Father has been teaching me patiently, much about how fearful we are as a race. All that you see, these proud monuments and the technologies of sorrowful desire, are there to help us accept ourselves as we are. I once fought against these machines, these sad systems, but I now see that all things are of God, and all things are created for his pleasing purpose. We learn to finally accept - indeed cherish - the things we once abhored, and as this is the way of Yeshua life, we shall - all of us - be healed.
This acceptance which appears to be a thread within Christianity, but which had been overlooked, is the very heart song of our Father, this willingness to lift up those around us as exalted above ourselves - this appears to be the way out of the woods beloved. Hidden for 2,000 years almost, like treasure in a field… but now the treasure comes back, not the virgins arise and trim their lamps, now the master comes when we least expected.
Do you not see beloved? This grandeur, this glorious contruct called man and man’s self-sourcing ways go away finally. Not with a bang, not with so much as a wimper, but with a sigh, with regrets and with the eager anticipation of glorious redemption.
These are the days we longed for, the days of heaven come down, and the light that discloses secrets and songs. These are the days when the motived of men’s and women’s hearts are disclosed.
This is also the day when we cherish one another, and accept ourselves as we are. You must not judge, that is a trap, and many have been ensared thereby. Judge nothing before the time, keep your heart pure in an acceptance of all men, and thereby fulfill the love of Christ.
I had this feeling over the weekend that God Almighty, maker of all that we are and know, is moving.
Slowly, almost as if awakening from deep slumber, stirring himself upright as if to say, long enough, it is time.
And a very low frequency throbbing that reverberates through the very rocks (this is my Spielberg version), through our hearts, He comes and causes the mountains to shake, he causes the air to split in half, He comes down and rains love and mercy like a storm of consolation.
This is what I am feeling now. He had to wait until we were FINALLY willing to be free of fear, at which point He can begin to work his Work. And his work is glorious, it is healing, it is eternal life, it is pleasure and love forever, it is humankind intertwined into Him. It is the dead brought back to life, it is everything you could have ever possibly imagined - He has simply waited.
What he does now, he does in the Spirit. All of this prophetic doomsday pratter is a diversion to find out who is really listening to HIM - and who would rather listen to the news! BELOVED, turn off the TV, turn off the sadness, turn off depression, recession, gloom and doom. Those things were tests… he was trying our hearts to see who would still follow him. He tests us beloved. He tests for our own good and maturing, blessed be His name forever.
I encourage you! Seek the lord, seek your God, your Allah or whatever or however you refer to him! He is love, he is compassion, and now her steers our hearts like some vast ship into love for one another. He is the glorious vastness of midnight in velvet longing, He is the caress of lovers lace, He is our Father, He is our Maker, He is one awesome dude to hang out with!
And so you must! Hang out with him, begin to call upon him when you are glad, when you are sad. Seek him in the midst of all uncertainty, seek him when the chips are down, seek him when you are on top of the world. Beloved, this is good news, like good news we never heard of! This is it, this is the change, this is the glorious fulfillment of all things, all things that are past, all things that are future. This is God, full, rich, forgiving, accepting, merciful forever!
He was simply trying to get our attention, for 2,000 years. Trying to get our attention, trying to find a people, and he would settle for one. A people that would finally believe, finally accept him at his word. Finally walk with him like he was as real as a tree or a lover’s kiss. We now believe completely, for he fulfills his desire in us. And he desires us like water, like crystal waters that go one forever. He is thirsty for his bride.
I see now that He has waited, he has been so very patient. And now. IT ALL COMES TO PASS, all that was and will be, eternal life, a change in the air, meeting Christ and passed away loved ones, they are starting to show up, and we see that they live through us like capricious children. All it took was faith, a faith that was willing to accept anything, everything, forever and ever.
Beloved, prepare yourself - for forever and ever. Prepare yourself for eternality in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior, who has washed us from our sins in his own blood. Blessed be his name forever. Amen and amen, it all comes to pass, and these are the days that we will sing of to our children for a million generations to come.
This is the coming to pass. This is the parousia of Christ, amen. Prepare, make sure you have plenty of oil! Listen, love, learn.
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