Watch Natalie paint. You deserve a break.
To mark Good Friday as a day of remembrance and humility, an artistic rendering of the cross is typically focused on the beauty of redemption, rather than physical suffering and unjust violence. However, the symbol of the cross represents the evils that often go unsaid. The battle between good and evil, ignorance and spiritual enlightenment, betrayal by people close to us, and divisions among political, economic, and social classes were humanity’s struggles for thousands of years and continue to this day.
The oil painting above is called “Cross and Lily“. Two of my other cross paintings are “Floral Cross” and “Celtic Cross“. Below, my kids and I are singing with the church choir “Precious Lamb”. As you can see, my live event footage is from before the ban on singing.
In the above song “Precious Lamb”, the lyrics that speak to me the most are about the “blameless one” carrying the blame, and the “life giver” giving His own life. When the innocent are sacrificed while the guilty go free we long for victory, in which all wrongs are righted. Sometimes the only path to freedom is through mercy; being blessed to receive forgiveness, and strong enough to forgive others.
New birds have already found us at our new home. These cardinals are different, as I knew they’d be.
All moved in and my Internet is up. Did you miss me? I missed you! I’ll catch up when
This looks nothing like the house we’re closing on, but our house IS in Savannah. I had no idea
WHEW! The issues are finally resolved and our delayed close on the house will happen TOMORROW! Tomorrow is moving
Today was a highly stressful day. We still haven’t closed on the house and we are now running out
Well, there must have been a bad moon a’rising because today was a horrible day. The close on our