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Exhausted by Elle Pace



Colorful painting of a woman sitting beside her kitchen mess called Exhausted by Laurie Pace
©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2025
Exhausted
Oil on Canvas  SOLD  by Laurie Pace  


Exhausted.  This figurative painting with my palette knife was created back in 2008 after preparing Thanksgiving dinner. Hubby took a photo of me sitting on a kitchen chair with the red pot on the stove. I used it as my sketch I did not do prior!!!   I had so much fun painting this!!  Never did another one like, should I do more? 


James 1:3  "Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance."

No life exists that has not been tested. Some of us are tested  and are able to push on to grow past it. Some of us are tested and hit in rapid fire over several years. I am still there. Early this morning at 12:05 I was wide awake trying to push thoughts away to return to sleep. The room began to fill with prayer and Bible verses from my mind and cry, but the shadows seemed full of them. I was up for about two hours.  I read scripture, I prayed, I wrote in a notebook I keep by my bed. I fought not to cry as it complicated life too much breathing to go back to sleep. This is a rare thing for me. I have learned from the past three years I have to let go of things. 100% let go. The well worn phrase of LET GO AND LET GOD.... was not working.  Laying it beneath the cross was not working, Reciting in my head my favorite scripture readings was not working.  

I put on "Rainfall" from Spotify. 10 hours of rainfall. I picked up my note book and only wrote four or five lines, I then dug up new scripture to read, made notes to write it out today, turned off my light and fell asleep about two a.m.  Normally I am up by 5, but it was 6:30 this morning. The Lord provided and today is here. My focus is on my sweet husband right now and not on the family member that is lost alone and on the streets by choice. I gave a valiant try, perhaps my hundred and first try.... to help them again over the last 400 days just to have them not follow through on their commitment to follow up with their physician. As a mother this is a hard task to finally release the rest of it to the Lord, when you find your family member constantly arriving at your door, worn and torn but they simply will not get the appropriate help that is available. 

My help comes through the Lord, and only He knows what is and will be.   Elle 

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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