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Family Painting in Progress . Horse Painting . Joy in God . Texas Artist Laurie Pace



  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2019

Family 

16 x 16  Oil on Cradled Birch in progress

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”  Leo Tolstoy

 Today finds me working on this painting above for a show in Iowa at The Bereskin Art Gallery.  I am honored to show my work there and thankful to Brad Bisbey for his friendship and help with this show.  I wanted to be there for the opening but we have a grandson due about the same time. I promise to post a photo of the final painting once it is done. 

 This morning I was reading in Psalm 16. I have read this psalm many times in my life, but it was this morning it truly wrapped my heart.   We all seek to be happy.  My grandmother always told me happiness came from doing for others.  As I read this beautiful Psalm, my heart filled with joy.  JOY is better than happiness.  Joy comes through God. As we live our faith and serve others, we are touched by the intimate joy God provides us. It is the nearness of God that brings me comfort, solace, contentment and joy.  

 Psalm 16:2  “I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”   It is only through Him we can find happiness and joy. 

 Psalm 16: 11 “In Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever” 


Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist 

      





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