Create Beauty: Prayer

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Prayer

~ Today is our National Day of Prayer ~

Let us lift up our hearts to God!
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These are some of my watercolors of praying women.
It is a series that has been on my heart.
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Have a blessed day!

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~Violet~

2 comments:

Kathleen Ellis said...: What a beautiful reminder...and visual for the National Day of Prayer!
You are such a talented lady!
Happy Mother's Day!
;-D; May 8, 2009 at 4:21 AM
Christine said...: I am impressed with your blog.
What a wonderful display of your passions.
Keep up the great job. I'll be back.; May 8, 2009 at 7:01 PM

Beauty Inspires

"Beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts." (a quote by Simon Weil) - is how John Eldredge begins a chapter in his book "Journey of Desire". He goes on to say, "Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction ... No, more, much more. Is not this God's prescription for us?

Just take a look around. The sights and sounds, the aromas and sensations - the world is overflowing with beauty.

God seems to be rather enamored with it.

G lo r i o u s l y wasteful.

Apparently, He feels that there ought to be plenty of it in our lives.

Beauty ... heals, stirs us, moves and inspires. Lift any obstacle you may have to filling your life with greater and greater amounts of beauty.

Quote by John Eldredge

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"One should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of one's life, In order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

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~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe