Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” ― Carl Gustav Jung  What exactly is discernment?   Do you think we need it in today's world? One definition I found was: "Discernment: The quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure."   I laughed out loud when I read "Discernment is basically a power or ability to see what is not evident to the average mind."     Discernment is the ability to decide between right and wrong or truth and error. How do you make the distinction between them?  In today's world I am struggling to abide with my Jesus in the midst of the storm.   Read more here on my main blog. I am praying for your spirit and your dire...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Old Eyes More art coming soon.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceartist Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          When I brushed my teeth this morning, I stopped for a millisecond and looked into the mirror and saw ‘old eyes’.   Granted, not these in the photo above, but something more joyful.   "He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden." Plato (427-346 B.C.) We are all growing older.  There are more old people daily and more crossing over the 65 mark. After being around many between that age and up, I know one thing… I do not want to be a grumpy old person.  Do you?...

Yellow Flowers Contemporary Art Daily Painting Flowers by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Watercolor Contact me to purchase or for commission work: Laurie This is Christmas Eve LATE NIGHT. We were eating See's Candy sent by a close friend in Sacramento. She always knows Terry loves his candy. This is late late Christmas Night and I was worn out from 6 hours of cooking and then an hour of cleaning up. Thank you Jan for your help and ever busy hands! Also Mac for pitching in that morning in the kitchen with cooking. THANK YOU GOD! I have to stay with thoughts of bible stories this morning. I keep remembering the wise judgment of King Solomon when two prostitutes came before the king. Both had given birth to babies. A few days later, one baby had died and the sneaky mother took her dead baby and laid it at the breast of the other sleeping mom. She slipped the live baby out from next to her and took that baby to her bed. When the one mother awoke and saw the dead child she was upset ...