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WE REMEMBER MOMENTS Thoughts to share and hoping to Paint again ... Laurie Justus Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Spring 1976 Shop my Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.  "We don't remember days, we remember moments." Cesare Pavese I was on the treadmill this morning watching part of a movie doing my 3 miles.  This quote was in the movie and it stuck with me. There are some days I remember, but truly only because of moments in that day.  I remember vivid moments of securing my first job at age 16.  I saw an ad in the Sunday Dallas Morning News by Neiman Marcus hiring an artist's model. Back in that time they hand drew the ads using people wearing the clothes.  Personally I like it better than today.  I was hired and I worked there that summer and all through my Senior year in high school... I took one morning class and hoped a bus to downtown Dallas.  The time I remember it happening but the memory is the ad that I cut out of the want ads and held on to it and even have it

In Christ, looking up close and personal at who we are as Christians. Painting Flowers Again Soon, Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 The Glass Vase  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I believe the drought of summer 2022, has been one of the worst we have experienced in our lifetime. Yesterday, for the first time in two months, temperatures fell below 100 and it rained.  It actually stormed. Terry and I had left the house to travel to Keller Texas, to Bear Creek Running Co . We are planning on walking the dogs as temps drops, and I needed new shoes.  I drove us in BlueBird (My new car) home in strong winds and torrential rains with thunder and lightening. While I wish I had flowers to be worried about, we struggled this summer to water the grass and all of our trees.  We had nine trees but the weather last year took out a 20 yr old red oak. It left a huge vacancy in our back yard. My hope is to break away from these 100 degree and up days. This is far from normal.  The flowers

Quilted Memories by Laurie Pace

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Quilted Memories Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Yesterday I was doing Saturday morning pick up and was carrying some books into my bedroom and I heard the word "USE". I looked at the stack of books I had collected to move and it was the Torah, the Chumash and two Bibles.  When I read and study them, I usually compare passages and cross reference things.  I believe God was making a point of giving this word to me for many reasons that will reveal themselves over the course of time. The immediate thought was over those books first.  I usually read in my Bible in the evenings and spend 45 minutes to an hour in study with them.  Use it....your Bible or your Torah. Spend time during the day with the Lord. Later in the day, I pulled out two large cloth containers with quilts in them. Some were family quilts and some were Ebay quilts I bought over the years. My mind was still

BLUEBIRD... Blessed are those who wait on HIM. by Laurie Pace

  Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;     therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice.      Blessed are all who wait for him ! " Isaiah 30:18 RedBird Sings in the Bluebird.  "Blessed are all who wait for him!" Waiting through the winter and the Spring... and suddenly the appearance of Redbirds (Cardinals) in my back yard.  I grabbed a photo here and there as we had not seen them in the past few years of the lock down.  As we neared Mothers Day, Morgan took me out car shopping and I tried out a new Mercedes, another Range Rover...and two weeks ago, Stacey promised a trip to the Freeman Hyundai where they had purchased five cars. Justin also drives a Hyundai. Life happens and Stacey has been very busy.     $142 for one tank of gas for our Ram What spurred this sudden push? Our youngest son borrowed our truck and drove on a trip to

The Western Blue Bird by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Western Blue Bird Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "And if the house just keeps on winning I got a wildcard up my sleeve And if love keeps giving me lemons I'll just mix 'em in my drink And if the whole wide world stops singing And all the stars go dark I'll keep a light on in my soul Keep bluebird in my heart." From Miranda Lambert "Bluebird" What's Up God? Part 1 Have you ever felt 'led'  but was not sure where you were to go or why?  The past year I have learned to lean into the Lord almost minute by minute. I believe I have begun to succeed in retaining peace and calm when attacked by others or myself, or when a pity party tries to launch in my brain. We all seem to be easily led by our own thoughts into areas never previously examined. But are we aware when the Lord is trying to lead us somewhere? I have learned to let things happen with out trying to over control t