Paint Party Friday: Plenteous, Bountiful Redemption

I have been busy painting

for an art fair I am joining next week.

It's funny because I know I'm joining,

like months before,

but I just start painting

frantically a couple of weeks ago!!!

Here is what I painted last night.

Have not decided if it is finished or not.

I already like her!

 "Ask and it will be given you; 

seek and you will find; 

knock and the door will be opened to you...

.Which one of you will hand his son a stone 

when he asked for a loaf of bread?" 

Mt. 7:7-9 

 Sometimes when we ask God for bread, 

what He gives looks remarkably like a stone! 

It is only when we look at it through the eyes of faith,

 that it turns out to be the very best bread there is!

 Just like when my mom was sick,

 we asked and asked for healing! 

We sought doctors, the best treatments, 

miracle workers, we kept knocking on many doors-

 and God gave us a stone. 

But was it really a stone? 

It was only when I decided to trust Him, 

that He did not have to make sense to me, 

that He made perfect sense of it all. 

He wanted to take mommy home 

but He also wanted us to know mommy 

was going on an adventure and she would be free!

 It was not an ending but a 

whole new wonderfully exciting beginning!

 Yes indeed, the door opened!

 "With you is forgiveness...

and plenteous redemption."

Psalm 130:4,7

Asking forgiveness is hard.

As a Catholic, I am supposed to confess

to a priest at least once a year.

But every time I go,

I say the same litany of sins!

 It is such an awesome thing that 

God's second name is forgiveness!

And with Him is plenteous, bountiful,

redemption!

That means that for as many times

as we go to God,

through a priest, or just direct to God Himself,

He is ready and willing to forgive us

and we can be as white as snow!

He knows what we are made of -

Psalm 103:14 says

that he knows our frame,

and He knows we are dust!

1 John 1:9

"If we confess our sins,

He is faithful and just

and will forgive us our sins

and purify us from all unrighteousness."

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