WOYWW: Great are the Works of the Lord!

I woke up late today and

so I decided to make my painting simple

and easy to do.

I also decided to spare you a picture

of my messy desk.

After drawing, I used carbon paper to transfer

my drawing on to my ready made background.

Here is my drawing.

Now to get out my paints and brushes.

The verse I am illustrating is from

the Book of Psalms-

"Great are the works of the Lord!

Ps. 111:2

So many exciting things happening

in the world today.

Yes truly how great are the works of the Lord!

And the amazing thing is 

He wants to do work through you and me!

Great are the works of the Lord...

what does He want to do

in this world?

When Jesus saw the widow

he was moved with pity for her

whose only son had died. (Luke 7:11-17)

The Greek expression that Luke used

to describe Jesus' feeling means

"to have mercy from one's inner core."

(from The Word Among Us)

As we are called to be Jesus to others,

let us remember Teresa de Avila's poem,

"Christ has no body but yours

No hands, no feet on earth but yours

Your eyes are the eyes with which he looks

Compassion on the world

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good

Yours are the hands with which he blesses

all the world.

Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,

Yours are the eyes, you are his body."

Every week I choose one wonderful visitor

who leaves a comment

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I know it takes so much time and effort

to leave a comment

and I appreciate it soooo much!

This week,

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 #11, Mel Caldicott of

Essential Things Devotions,

a beautiful lady with many wise words!

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Creative Things

Blessings!

Patsy

I am My Father's Daughter

When God created the world,

he found joy in the act of creating.

In Genesis 1:31, it reads,

“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”

And because our Creator found joy in making things out of nothing,

He wanted to share it with us.

He created man in His image-

with the capacity to create,

with the aptitude to create with passion.

He gave man gifts and blessings, talents and love.

He didn’t give these gifts to the animals, only to man.

We are born to create.

We are born to use our imagination.

When we create, when we bring something that wasn’t there into being,

we share in our Creator’s gift and blessing.

God created many beautiful things out of nothing.

I look at how beautiful the animals are-

the different kinds of birds, butterflies,

even the strange creatures under the sea.

Look at the magnificent trees and mountains, the sunset.

God took so much care in forming these things for us and Him to enjoy.

Some of the things He created we will never even see!

He created them for His pleasure!

We too can create for our pleasure.

We need not be making art for others to appreciate,

unless that’s part of our pleasure as well.

There is no limit to God’s creativity and imagination.

And I believe God also gave us, each of us,

creativity and imagination with no limit.

The more we use these gifts, the more we will have!

God didn’t destroy what to us are strange or funny creations.

Sometimes we don’t want to draw or paint because we say we can’t draw.

Take a tip from God who appreciates His creations whatever it looks like!

And I realized that we would be

like father, like daughter,

if I enjoyed my creations as well!