'My Recital Piece' Music Child Playing Piano Painting Art by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

'My Recital Piece'

20 x 24 Varnish Overlays on Canvas
Available at The Rare Gallery, Jackson Wyoming.

Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie

The Painting: When Hollee phoned from the Rare Gallery she requested another music piece. These are done with antique music from a great grandfather. I take various pieces and they are varnished in layers on the canvas. Over those layers are intermittent layers of acrylics. These are usually ONLY for galleries. You may contact me to request one for yourself. I can do pianos and children, Violins with children, Conductors etc.

The Thought:The old bed is getting old and uncomfortable. I am ready to be well and up and moving. I feel so much better today than yesterday...and yesterday I felt WAY better than the day before. No other symptoms but fever and lots of that. Terry thinks I picked up something from my Wednesday Piano students.

I have been rereading the book "Fifty-seven Words That change the Word" by Darrell W Johnson. It is a journey through the Lord's prayer. This man is gifted in his insight into our faith; his writings are to be read and reread as you will pull even more out the second time. As I was only into the second chapter I realized there were parts that seemed new...as if I had not read them before. I think we glean certain things when we are "just reading" than when we are "studying". I have decided to go through the book with paper and pen in hand this time.

Here is a small excerpt. If you think you might enjoy it, order it. I had an art collector in Canada that sent me this book and one other. I have enjoyed both of them. This one captures my heart as it presents things that I have never examined before.

Chapter 1, page 11.

"Have you ever observed that the only thing the first disciples of Jesus are recorded to have asked Jesus to teach them is,"Lord, teach us to pray" (Luke 11:1) There is not record of anyone asking Jesus to teach them to lead, or to counsel or to heal or to cast out demons or to preach. They may have asked him but there is no record of them doing so. Why? Perhaps it is because they could see that Jesus' leading, counseling, healing, casting out, and preaching ministry emerged out of his relationship with his"father." And they could see that the key to that relationship was prayer."

On the back cover of the book it says "Nowhere is Jesus' brilliance more manifest than in the prayer he taught his disciples to pray, the prayer that has come to be known as the 'Lord's Prayer". A mere fifty-seven words in the oringinal Greek, the Lord's Prayer gathers up all of life and brings it before God in eight stirring meditations. Darrel Johns shows how the Lord's Prayer sums up the essence of Christian faith and when prayed in faith, draws us into the Triune God's work of transforming the world."

This prayer crosses my lips at least two times a day sometimes many more. It opens all of my spiritual time with God in the mornings before I lift my head from the bed and it close my day and opens my spiritual time with my Father before I lay myself to sleep. From it I begin my meditation on my own prayers and exchanges with my Father.

I have to add here that I was so touched by the many replies to "Pearls" that I received. Some are so personal I did not want to post them on the blog, but rest assured I gave thanks as I read them all. Everyday near pearls are there for you to string on your strands in your memory.

May His will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Laurie

"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." Matthew 6:9-13

Arrival...Refrigerator?

© Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 2024 Arrival Oil on Canvas SOLD by Laurie Pace Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the Lord whtever you do, and he will establish your plans." Worrisome times laced with prayers. The world seems like a scary place lately. Praying for everyone affected by the last two hurricanes. My adventures today were the result of a dead refrigerator. I have loved my Kitchen Aid refrigerator very much. The first one in the 'French Kitchen' look died at 13 months. Hubby wanted the same refrigerator. Well this one made it four years and a few months. I cannot believe appliances are not made to last longer...but wait, is that because they make more money if we have to replace it in 4-5 years? You replace your mattress at least every 7 years... and your washer dryer, you might get 7 years out of those... The stoves seem to make it closer to 10 years. We are Lowe's customers, and Robert and Shelia at the Southlake Lowe's in Appliances

The Marsh... of our lives? Walking with God.

© Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 2024 The Marsh 6 x 12 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD by Laurie Pace I did two of these paintings about three years ago. They both sold immediately to a Florida Collector. Simple and elegant for a horse painting. Ephesians 5:1-2 "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma." One of the biggest challenges in walking with God is trusting Him and not trying to out think Him or to do everything your way. It never works. The Apostle Paul wrote of his own struggles in Romans 7 . Romans 7: 22-23 “ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me” I can only speak for mys

Piano Girls

© Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 2024 Girl on Piano Oil on Canvas SOLD by Laurie Pace Our prayers are with the southeastern Gulf coast as a hurricane approaches. We have family and friends in this area. This painting was a more impressionistic piece than the Girl on Piano pieces from 2008-2010. It is the tilt of the head and the precious lift of the hand with the outer small finger delicately angled. Not quite old enough to be using pedals, her feet are crossed below the bench. Back in the day of my lessons and playing in the late fifties and early sixties, young girls wore dresses. I miss those days. I still prefer dresses over pants today... even my studio jeans. One of my modern girl on Piano pieces.... "Playing for Papa" These make incredible gifts for the holidays using music that is important to you or to the person receiving the gift. In the midst of commissions right now. I loved playing for my grandmother and my Dad. Shop other Av

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