'Dancing in the Moonlight'
24 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas
I reworked this painting, so this is updated and it is available.
I reworked this painting, so this is updated and it is available.
© Laurie Justus Pace Graphics One Design 2010
The Painting: I worked more on this painting and really feel the power in it now.
The Painting: I worked more on this painting and really feel the power in it now.
The Thought: This week is our wedding anniversary. Terry and I have known each other for 46 years. That is a long relationship now days.
We are blessed to both be believers and to have grown up as teenagers visiting each other's churches and youth groups. Yesterday morning we joined the First United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon Texas. We are so blessed to be apart of this wonderful congregation. Many of our neighbors from Tall Tree drive into town to attend this church as well as a large majority of folk from town. It is a large church with two services, active groups for every season of life and a minister that leads with his heart and hands placed with God.
Yesterday Pete spoke on Higher Down. It was on the addition of the Holy Spirit as Jesus brought to His Disciples this "Spirit" to live within them. As Pete was preaching he was challenging all of us to do more than Jesus has done... just as He predicted in the Bible that we would do. Accepting God, Christ and the Holy Spirit brings you closer, higher to God. Pete likened it to being in a wagon climbing a steep hill to Heaven. You bounce in the wagon with all the potholes and ruts in life.. but as you bounce up and come back down, your downs are actually higher as you are climbing higher with your faith every time you bounce down from a jolt in life.
That is one to think about! Think about your higher downs today... and allow the Spirit to lead you as you climb higher.
We are blessed to both be believers and to have grown up as teenagers visiting each other's churches and youth groups. Yesterday morning we joined the First United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon Texas. We are so blessed to be apart of this wonderful congregation. Many of our neighbors from Tall Tree drive into town to attend this church as well as a large majority of folk from town. It is a large church with two services, active groups for every season of life and a minister that leads with his heart and hands placed with God.
Yesterday Pete spoke on Higher Down. It was on the addition of the Holy Spirit as Jesus brought to His Disciples this "Spirit" to live within them. As Pete was preaching he was challenging all of us to do more than Jesus has done... just as He predicted in the Bible that we would do. Accepting God, Christ and the Holy Spirit brings you closer, higher to God. Pete likened it to being in a wagon climbing a steep hill to Heaven. You bounce in the wagon with all the potholes and ruts in life.. but as you bounce up and come back down, your downs are actually higher as you are climbing higher with your faith every time you bounce down from a jolt in life.
That is one to think about! Think about your higher downs today... and allow the Spirit to lead you as you climb higher.
Laurie
"Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you." John 14:8-17
"Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you." John 14:8-17
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