Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2025 Movement of the Wind Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace  aka Elle Pace This is a smaller painting created with a palette knife  and left over paint from another canvas.  This is why the earth tones are rich with the colors that made it. Reminds me of the wild candy canes dancing before my eyes at Christmas with stripes and swirls.  I hope to paint as I finish this blog this morning.  We will see what God brings to my day! James 1:21 " Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you." James' writing has always been a heart tugger for me. It has brought healing in many ways.  He writes the raw truth and wants us each to trust in God.  Does this show up in your daily life?  We are all sinners, but those that trust God will turn from sin.  You can count on 'sin...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." ― WILFRED ARLAN PETERSON Choosing Your Path When you are a kid, life is really easier.  You can intuitively go where things are inviting you and you always have a good time. As you mature and grow into adulthood, a few of those paths are laid out after you make certain decisions about getting married, or having a baby.  As you sink into full responsible adult life, it calls upon you to make decisions and choices daily. We all go through the anxiety of decisions.  I had a Father that brought me teaching me to make lists… p...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Finding the Path “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Was not sure if I wanted to post a dog chasing it's tail or this foggy path.  Are they the same? Maybe not.  Right now I am leaving a "trail" of papers everywhere in the house.  Have you ever thrown yourself into busy work, generating piles of papers, notes and plans around you but not ever moving forward?   Have you ever had to make a decision you just could not make, so you procrastinate making it? (Yes, more piles of paper.) Have you ever looked at the clock at the end of the day, back at the piles of notes and realized you still did not accomplish anything? By this point in life, I have fallen to my knees crying because of the loss of direction. I have ALWAYS been a go getter, a planner, and an achiever.  ...