"It is Well"
7x9, oil on canvas
But for me, there is no such thing as a "work-life balance". My life informs my work. My work is often meditation on life.
This life is so transient. Painting the sunrise will teach you.... As will the passing of a loved one.
You can send cards on birthdays, sit through the family dinners be there in body, know a person in fact and miss knowing their soul. (I don't say this because I have regrets with Cathy's life. I don't have any. I say this because there are others in my world into which I don't currently invest heart and soul.)
You can take a thousand photos of the sun as its rays reach over the horizon and transform the morning into another world. You can know how to mix a deep sky blue or the color of a tree in the shadows. You can paint one hundred paintings and say "that was fun". You can look at a scene and recognize that it is beautiful. You can do all these and miss knowing the One who spoke those things into existence. This world is nothing but a whisper of the glory of His character, a reflection of His beauty, a glimpse of His love and a fragment of His power.
Words do no justice. Nor does my paint and brush. But I feel as George Herbert when he wrote of his poetry:
Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance
Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
I hope that with my brush I can in a small way "turn delight into a sacrifice" for my viewers as well.
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