A Summer Bloom give away... A new experience of Letting Things Go... can you do it? Texas Artist Laurie Pace aka Elle Pace
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Summer Blooms
6 x 6 inches Acrylic on Cradled Panel
Free Drawing for this Little Blessing - must register by
midnight 11 August 2023 CST
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by Laurie Pace
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A New Experience
I chose to share an acrylic flower this time. I am going to do a work out of many things in acrylics trying to decide if I even want them in my studio! I have been working on a commission painting and had to use acrylic because of the time involved to 'give' it to someone.
It went better than I thought but I started differently. So the give aways will either be in oil or some will be new things in acrylic. I hope to do this every second or third day but will always post it on FB or just check this blog daily.
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"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1: 2-4
Lately I have been found talking to myself. Hubby and I have spent time over the past weeks aligning ourselves to deal with stress better, and to take care of each other. Recommit to each other.
A good friend, Jess, wrote a post about her husband and herself before his death last year. She shared the fact that he had been doing something similar. He shared God's love with her and lifted her up when she was down or troubled... his faith was unshakable even as he was dying last year. Early on in marriage, she began writing all the things down that he said and did for her... and especially when he got sick... and she wrote and wrote and compiled all the beautiful things he shared with her.
She took the book out and cried as she reread every page on the one year day of his death. Do you love your spouse enough to lift them up and be there through everything facing them and yourself? Even when they are mad at you or disappointed in you? Are you praying over your spouse, doing special crazy love things for them... making them feel special not just in God's eyes but yours as well?
With the stress of the economy and a war we should not be involved in, the politics of the day.... add in the heat in Texas and family with health issues... we have navigated things stronger... but disagreements still will crop up on occasion. I have learned to not respond. Dang that is hard. When you feel so strongly you have to right what you see is wrong, that is really when you need to get over it and push on.
That is when I am talking to God.
Out loud.
That is also when you might hear me singing "MY GOD IS SO BIG, SO STRONG AND SO MIGHTY, THERE IS NOTHING MY GOD CANNOT DO"
Sort of a song sign and Terry knows it well. I have learned to talk directly to God out loud asking for help to let it go... to not allow it to be absorbed into my body, my heart or my mind. Us humans are really good about action REACTION thing. But when we are at that point we are choosing to allow stress into our lives.
You have a choice when situations arise.
Chose not to react negatively.
Chose not to respond negatively.
Chose peace and let it go 'positively'.
Follow the Spirit of the Paint... with Laurie Pace
Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist
Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.
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