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FALL KOI ONE, Contemporary Art by Laurie Justus Pace

18 x 27 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

SOLD


After a trip to the arboretum last weekend I came home with quite a few pictures to paint from. This is one of the koi that I took. GORGEOUS colors! Most of my koi are painted with blues and purples, this one is different in the cool greens of the pools at the arboretum.

Today is a bit of painting this morning and then the house cleaning I did not finish yesterday. I did get the studio cleaned up though. Rachel came to visit from across the street while I was doing it. Sort of kept me on task too!

I have been reading Louise Hay's new book "You can Heal your Life" . It has a remarkably simple view if one could keep focused on it. "Every moment of life is a new beginning point as we move from the old. This moment is a new point of beginning for me right here and right now. All is well in my world." Her first chapter is entitled "Life if Really Very Simple, What we Give Out, We Get Back." Think on that today. If you create an atmosphere around you of peace and harmony, that is what you will get back. I sort of like that idea. I thought I did that but obviously I do not, or my life would not be where it is right now. Again, that is my perception and perhaps I need to climb out of my box and look at it clearly. Too much junk in my way in the box. By practicing peace in my life, I am letting go of control and allowing my Father to work. His greater good will emerge if I sit back and listen and watch with an open heart of pure faith. God lights the way for peace and harmony.

My prayers are with my friend Catherine as she watches her mother journey on to God's open arms. She remarked to me with her mom's passing it left her as the matriarch of the family. That was sort of scary. Makes you feel your vulnerability. I pray that our Father strengthens her through this next week as she and her siblings celebrate the joy of their mother's life here on earth and her new life, free of pain and all the earthly trappings....a life with God.

Grace,
Laurie

“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.”—Jeremiah 29:11-12
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