Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Gathering…Waiting  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. Waiting.  Waiting. Waiting.  Do you ever feel like you spend a lot of time waiting on something or someone?  When we are caught up in life gathering, busily lining the ducks up in a row, we stop when we realize a few ducks got away…while we were busy putting the first group of Quackers  in place.  (almost makes me tired and stressed typing this…) Will the first group you lined up ‘stay’ there? Or, did they disappear when you turned around to get the others?  We are all quite the busy bodies…either online, which is not healthy. Or doing our own  ‘Thing’ each day.  Throughout  life our personal patterns shift, our friends may shift closer to us, or may m

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Winter Warrior 24 x 24 Oils on Canvas  by Laurie Pace   2022 series of Women Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. 1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. Human nature seems to call us to jump into situations that might be avoided. In today’s world, our lifestyles have changed and we are confronted on every side with demand, action, and intensity. Rare is a moment of peace and quiet. Rare is a moment spent in prayer. Action seems to be the verb of the century.   With the constant distractions pulling us away from our thoughts and activities, it is no wonder we find ourselves lost through out the day. Screen time sucks life out of us. Facebook seems to be our social time scrolling and scrolling. Instagram and Tictoc ‘empower us’ to boldness to shock, share, and

   © Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2024 Winter Races  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.   Psalms 46:1-2 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble .  Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea  I was a bit surprised when I received my email from ATMOS energy and the gas bill was $230.  We have never been above $150 during the snow meggedans from several years ago. This was simply a ‘oh wow’. This was from the middle of Dec through the 16th of January. Has not really been cold until last week.  Our world is changing and presently not in our favor economically. BE PATIENT  Have you ever had one of those days where you begin to doubt everything? My sweet husband works hard to keep us safe, but are we?  He decided we ought to check for gas leaks with the bill as high as it is.  I know sometimes he forgets to t

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Visiting and Delivering Paintings  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Bless us in whatever experiences this day may bring to each of us. May we plant seeds of blessings to grow in the lives of others. May we have the energy to meet this day and its needs. May we not be distracted by worries. May we each enjoy every single simple quiet moment. Give us honesty and kindness living this day forward.  This beautiful horse Painting hangs in the home of one of my collectors. I was delivering two paintings to her home a week ago, and was thrilled to get to see the other pieces she had hung over the years. The one I’m sharing this morning is one of my favorites. The vivid contrasting colors combined with the horizontal movement of the horses across the water accented by the change of light at sunset, creates that feeling of the close of day, with the closing majest

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Wolf  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. " 2 Corinthians 4:16 Stop Trying to figure it all out. Depending on your childhood and your genetic make up, each of us absorbs mannerisms and coping skills from those near and dear to us. My personal experience created me into a person who likes to solve and fix things. I also learned from my mother, to be a caretaker. What about you?  In our home lives growing up, we have hundreds of experiences every day, repeat it through every week, as well as this first years of our lives. this is the foundation of who you are as a person, how you think things out, and how you respond to the people and situations around you.  As you mature, and go out into the world, you have become an established force of natur

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Contentment  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Look around you. Everyone has work or duties each day, and no one has the same work. To you or me, we may think someone else has ‘greater work’ than we do. Created by our Father, we each have our own set of gifts woven straight in our DNA. We each have a part to do, and no one else can do our part…we must do it.  Some have made the commitment to God without holding back, and those have soon found they live contented without any reserve,  for they live abiding with Him and seeking only what He wills, and they desire to do for Him whatever He desires them to do. They live a simple life without worry or being over worked, because they have chosen to be lead by what God has provided. In this state they find fullness with what is given. In our wack-a-day world this is unheard of.  We all want a sense of peace eac