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West by Northwest with Day 2 of the Give Away!


Color Rising with the horses almost like a gentle rainbow... Horse Painting by Laurie Pace
©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2024
West by Northwest
Oil on Canvas  SOLD  by Laurie Pace  


Day 2 of the giveaway. I am excited it is also another collector over the past 14 years. D. Sharp, something is coming your way!  

I am trying not to listen to TV and hubby has all the things on about the drones and other things that are not my favorite. Gave me a quick minute tonight to post the drawing name.  We had a busy day yesterday and today...both days running around Dallas. Could not leave today without a burger from Becks on Preston and Forest.  We got it to go... and I got a salad.... Made it home with 20 min to spare and we were off to church for the Christmas Music presentation. Over two hours of beautiful music, singing and praising... Left us filled with the joy and awe of Christmas.  Another short post...but  a great Bible verse tonight: 

Philippians 2: 12-15 "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed - not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence-continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.  For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his purpose. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, "Children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation." Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky."

There is much power in this verse today... because for me to read the strength in which Jesus tells us to work OUT our salvation with fear and trembling.  I use to stop there and wonder why we have to be afraid, but that is not what it means. I found it best explained on Seedbed. I have been associated with them for years!

This article in Seedbed truly nails this, "It feels like a conundrum: Don’t be afraid of God yet live in the fear of God—yet it’s not. It comes back down to these two sides of the same coin—holiness and Love. God is holy love, and in truth it’s not two sides of the same coin as though these two things can be separated. Holy love is one thing. And it is both awe-inspiring and breathtakingly good. He splits the sea, drowns an enemy army of cruel tormentors, and he provides breakfast.

Every encounter with God is a test designed to bring us into the fullness of this kind of experienced understanding. We must all at once depend completely on God’s mercy without presuming on his grace. This is impossible unless we actually know God. Knowing about God is not enough. Relating to God through an intermediary like Moses is not workable. We must know God directly. The goal of this way of life is to live in the fear of God without being afraid of God. 

We live in the fear of God and in the embrace of God at the same time. On the one hand, we approach God humbly and yet this for the purpose of embracing and being embraced by God fully. Are we growing in our awareness of this, the true nature of God, or does our vision of God remain skewed? "  Thank you Seedbed!

Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist 


             


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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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