I have been a bit slow and inconsistent about this blogging journey. Actually, I’ve been a bit slow about a lot of things. For the next few months, I will be writing here about a roadmap to finding healing. As I look back, I can see specific stepping stones that the Lord led me through. …
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Opposite View
This is a painting by Sylvia Plimack Mangold. It is in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. I have been writing a chapter in my book about the filters through which we see ourselves. When I saw this painting, it reminded me how different what we see can be from reality. When …
New Birth
I’m just getting around to posting the finished painting here. I put off posting when I think I don’t have anything to say. Sometimes I just forget. It seems strange that I don’t think I have anything to say, but my brain is running non stop. The after school classes that I usually teach are …
“It Won’t Be Long Now”
This painting is almost finished. It’s been almost finished for over a month now. I wish that were the exception and not the rule, but…let’s just say it’s not my only long process piece. This painting is significant to me because of the turn I’ve seen in my work. It isn’t so much about the …
Waiting Room
I don’t know how long it took for the world to come together or for the red sea’s waters to gather in a heap so the people could cross. I know that Ezekiel heard the sound of dry bones rattling as he spoke the words that God told him to. I know that Abraham waited …
Worth It
During a dark time I asked myself some serious questions. I had been in a long period of difficulties that I didn’t know exactly how to process. The questions sometimes went from… How long will this last? Is this it? Am I at the end? What about my promises? What about our promises? All the …
Freedom
Freedom, the word has seemed vague and illusive to me at times. In different situations and conversations it can have different meanings. What keeps us from being free to do what we are called to do? 2Peter 1:3 says, “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our …
Melicia Evans 