WOYWW: Watch out for the Locusts!

It's hard to put anything on my desk

these days!

Lots of things going on and piling up!

I discovered from Traci Bautista's class

for Strathmore, that you can mix

gesso with acrylic so that

the background won't show through.

In my case I mixed wall putty

with flesh acrylic,

and as you can see I've been making

lots of faces on bodies on different backgrounds.

A closer look.

  

Here's a finished canvas.

It's entitled, "My Times are in Your Hands".

On my journal yesterday:

from James 4:8, "Draw near to God,

and He will draw near to you."

 Today is Ash Wednesday.

The reading is from the prophet Joel.

I was wondering why the prophet was advising

the bride and bridegroom to stop their honeymoon!

It so happens that a plague of locusts

were destroying the land of Israel,

and Joel was calling on everyone to join the priests

in prayers and fasting for repentance

and intercession.

photo by Kate Geraghty

Locusts have been called

"formidable eating machines that can rapidly

devastate crops".
Theodoret, a Christian Bishop of Syria,
said that the head of the locust 
is very much like a horse!
Indeed, the Italian word for locust,
cavaletta, means little horse,
and the German word, heupferd, 
means hay horse!!


In the Bible, the effects a herd of locusts 
brings on much the same effect 
as an invading army.


Sin, or disobedience to God, is like 
a herd of locusts. 
It can destroy the peace, joy,
and love in our lives when we do not do 
anything to stop it!


Lent is a time of particular grace
when God offers us this unique invitation
to grow in our faith 
and in knowing Him
who loved us first!

Joining the lovely Julia for a 

peek at desks and projects!

 

I love blog parties!

Won't you join us?

Linking up with

Joan at Reflections of His Grace

Women in the Word Wednesdays

Laura at the Wellspring,

Blessings!

Patsy

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