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This Little Light of Mine….Horses racing in the morning sunrise.

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Sunrise Race 8 x 8 inches Oil on Panel Available    by Laurie Pace   This painting was done today and one of the first I have painted in several months. The new light of day behind the horses is the light we should carry on through this day. Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "A nd Lo I am  with you all the appointed days - Matt 28:20     This morning I was drawn into the thought and reading of the day with Streams of the Desert. It was reflecting on two words, fear and hope.  What do you live with?  I realized immediately I need to redirect my thoughts to remember God has this and I need to stop trying to deal with things my way. Yes I need to have hope, but this hope is based on all He has accomplished through me in my years here on earth. He has never left me behind, he has walked through the shadows as well as my fears.  I must rise above.  His light continues to shine for eac

New Pastures in our future. Longhorns ahead here in Texas! Texas Artist Laurie Pace

New Pastures © 2012 Laurie Pace    © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 New Pastures  Contemporary Abstract Longhorn Commission by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon"—said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures..” Henry David Thoreau, Walden It is that time of the year?   In my brain from a young age I always 'saw' the calendar in my head in an L shape like the old wall calendars.  January through September coming down the sides of the flip open and across the bottom Sept through Dec.  I feel we are at the end of the L shape and making that jump Dec 31 back to January at the top of the new next year.  2020 has been a challenge for everyone in the world. I have had maybe less than 5 or 6 bad days since March 1st.... I have always looked for the

A Season of Hope, A Season of Prayer by Texas Artist Laurie Pace, Life After Sixty

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Life After Sixty: A Season of Hope. A Season of Prayer.  by Texas Artist Laurie Pace Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. ” ― Mother Teresa We are coming upon the start of Advent of the Christmas Season. on the 29th of November is the first Sunday of Advent.  In preparation of a healthier mindset, I have decided to steer pretty clear of engaging in anything but this season of Hope and Prayer.   Yesterday I woke up early.  Sunday mornings I would rather sleep in a bit past 5 am! I decided to grab my ipad and listen to Pastor Morris' message from Saturday Church at Gateway, Southlake, Texas.  I do believe his sermon was meant to stir us into preparing our heart for what was ahead, both for advent as well as the situations growing violent throu

Sunning on the side of Despair... where do you lose your happiness?

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Sunning  by Laurie Pace - Available Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   This is a beautiful painting on birch wood with layers of acrylic glazing! It is ready to hang and does not need to be framed. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson My father-in-law had a saying.. "You can get glad just like you get mad."  We find ourselves quoting him often. Between the headlines or...wait, the SCARELINES and the current pandemic, who really knows how to react or what to believe.  1. Where did it all start to unravel for many of us?  When did so many stop believing in God?  We like to claim credit for everything we do. "I" is a large part of our outlay to others. God works in all of us, and for 'I' to take credit for it all really is not going the right direction. Now sometimes "I" choses to do something we

Teaching by Example. Have you been "FISHING" lately? Laurie Justus Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Christmas Memories with Grandson Jonathan probably in about 2008.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christmas memories are strong with the holidays here upon us. We are in the midst of the third week of Advent and Terry and I are enjoying reading our advent study each morning and in the evening we have been studying the book of Mark and how his gospel compares to the other ones.  This evening study prompted us with some tough questions to answer in our lives looking back .  First it asked the simple question of what it meant to 'follow' someone.  In today's world of social media, most people would define it similar, followin
A Painting a Day ~THREE UP ~ Palette Knife Oil Painting Horse Art by Laurie Pace Three Up 48 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission work: Laurie © Laurie Pace 2009 “ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. ” Romans 15: 13 A Painting A Day: Contemporary horses created with layers of palette knife paint, oils and impasto are apart of this painting. This was a commission piece for a very special doctors office opening here in Dallas. Color and energy are all apart of the healing process...waking the body to the "good news" of life through empathetic viewing , as energy passes from the canvas to the viewer. My thoughts for the day: The last time I was really sick was about a year ago in February when I had the flu and we had no heat, no hot water, and partial electricity. Go back and read my blogs from then. It was not a pretty thing. Terry would trot
Elements of Surprise Contemporary Western Art Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches OIL on Canvas SOLD From the Blog, Thank you! " Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. " Psalm 19:14 Here is a slide show with close ups of the painting. Have you ever heard someone say, "Wishful thinking!"? I know today I was out in the garden cutting roses. I had high hopes of collecting a vase full for the weekend. That was literally wishful thinking. I found two roses, one yellow one from our Orphan Rose that belonged to Terry's mom, and one red one from my JFK rose bush. I also cruised by the peach tree and last year we had hoped to have a few peaches but it was newly planted... wishful thinking...ahah, this year that tree is loaded with peaches. I do have wishful thinking when it comes to adult children making it on their own. Hasn't happened with all of them yet. Als
COLD RAINY NIGHT IN DALLAS Contemporary Art Cityscape Rain Daily Painting Art By Morgan and Laurie Pace 18 x 24 inches THICK OIL PAINT SOLD Contact to Purchase: Laurie This is a mother/son painting. He loves working with color as you can see! He also is trying to pay his rent and feed his dog. At least his priorities are good! We worked on this painting together in the studio a few weeks ago. JOY JOY JOY JOY Do you know anyone that does not want joy in their lives? Unless it is Christmas or you read the Oprah magazine there is not much use of the word JOY in our language from day to day. Why does it seem there is not enough joy in our lives? The third candle we light today is the Joy Candle. We add this to Hope and Peace. Yesterday I was with a friend, Deborah, driving across north Texas from visiting Stacey and Larry. We were talking deeply, as we normally do, about life and where we are in life in our fifties. Deborah lost her f