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At the Ocean Painting by Laurie Pace, The Essential Water and the Essential Faith

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 At The Ocean SOLD Oils on Canvas painted in 2011 Golden Pond Studio  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I love any type of water...  rain, rivers, ponds, lakes, the ocean... even sitting by a waterfall.  When we lived at the lake, my studio was about twenty feet across the back of the house overlooking both a 5 acre catfish pond and the main lake was to my left where I watched the sunset every evening. It was heavenly!! The negative part was constant water moccasins and copperheads. You had to be on watch where ever you stepped!  We all know the Bible is rich with powerful symbolism. Especially those snakes.  The one symbol that is important to me personally, is water. It represents faith, salvation, and provision, reminding me of its importance in both our physical and spiritual existence. Comparatively, water is crucial for sust

Colors of Early Spring with God by Laurie Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Colors of Early Spring  by Laurie Pace  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Shop my new $100 collectibles.  “ But a child, so recently come into the world from the void of creation, can be more resilient than the strongest man, more strong willed than the hardiest woman. A child is like an early spring bulb that carries all the resources needed within its skin for the first push through the soil towards the sun. And just as a little bit of water can start the bulb to grow, even through fissured rock, so can a little kindness give a child the ability to push through the dark .”     Kathleen Kent Having faith in a crisis is a good thing.  But it is something that must be grown and  cultivated with a confidence in God at all times , not just in times of crisis. It is important to be in a relationship with God at all times, through the good and through the bad in order to develop t

Teaching by Example. Have you been "FISHING" lately? Laurie Justus Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Christmas Memories with Grandson Jonathan probably in about 2008.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christmas memories are strong with the holidays here upon us. We are in the midst of the third week of Advent and Terry and I are enjoying reading our advent study each morning and in the evening we have been studying the book of Mark and how his gospel compares to the other ones.  This evening study prompted us with some tough questions to answer in our lives looking back .  First it asked the simple question of what it meant to 'follow' someone.  In today's world of social media, most people would define it similar, followin