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Honey Child

Kim Bullen — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:09:29 +0000

Growin’ up in the South…

Honey Child

was a common term of endearment used.

You really don’t hear it much these days,
but it sure does bring back fond memories

childhood twinkles of molasses slow days
that forced you to savor a moment
whether you wanted to or not…
.
Now, I’m discovering… .
THAT’S where the honey pot lies…
……… in the MOMENT………
with the potential TO BE golden… .
and filled with honey…
.
a message hidden

just for the one who discovers it!

Josephine

reminds us to just

SLOW DOWN,
SOAK in it
and

JUST BEE!!! .
We are all called to bee
HIS HONEY Child(s)!

Honey Child Mixed Media 20″ x 16 for $350-400.00

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Green Grass Church

Taylor Latch — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:42:02 +0000

Green Grass Church

Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good, His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endureth to all generations. Psalms 100:4

While painting this church…

I could see blades of green grass all around it…

and when it came time to focus on the door…

the scripture above came to mind…

and a green leaf settled quietly within its entryway!

Why a green leaf I asked?

And I heard a whisper say…

The purpose of a leaf

is to take in the light

(truth)

of the sun

(Jesus)

And use its energy

(power over darkness)

To process the water

(God’s word)

supplied from the ground

(the current circumstance)

together

with the carbon dioxide from the air…

(His Holy Spirit)

to provide food for the plant.

(to exchange our waste and exhaust & convert it to life in this moment)

Yes…

It’s ok… to go back and reread it!

I did so many times to let it soak deep within…

This process?

Photosynthesis…

Photo… using light

Synthesis… making something new

(He shines light on the darkness to make all things new)

Life emerges when blessings are counted…

Grass turns green

beneath my feet

when the blades around me

are cherished and noted as sweet.

Even doors turn green

opening wide

filled with life…

to places

leading up high…

Church

has those green leaf doors.

Friends

harboring that encouraging Barnabas spirit within

have those leaves…

and oh so many more green leaf invitations

surface

throughout each day!

All things

become life giving

when I start looking for these

green moments within my world…

May we grasp each blade of green

that comes our way today!

In Jesus

mighty name,

AMEN!

48 x 48 mixed media $1800.00

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Josephine’s World

Kim Bullen — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:47:15 +0000

Josephine’s World

STAYING SIMPLE IN A COMPLEX WORLD

For a long time now, I’ve doodled visions on notecards in church pews,

on the back of receipts while driving down the road… I mean while stopped at a stop light!

You name it… you’d find little bits of doodle scattered throughout my home…simple and childlike .

These past few years… it seems my doodles dwindled due to the pressures this chaotic world tends to heap on top of us all.

Yep… my little light was getting snuffed out…

the lamp unto my soul was being forgotten, and my joy had slipped into a static state of nothingness….

flatline, if you will, into the intangible realm.

BREAKING NEWS… A NEW WORLD HAS BEEN DISCOVERED

That is until…

my dear friend unknowingly awakened my inner goldendoodle

(new breed… cross between GOLDEN MOMENTS and EARTHLY DOODLES) .

She shared a dream she had one night that helped her get through the tough times.

As she was speaking, I remembered the image that emerged when my family was going through some of the darkest days a parent would ever want to venture into with their child…

I ended up painting that image simply titled…

GREEN GRASS AND SILVER LININGS.

to help me remember my life did not revolve solely on what was pulling me down.

Little did I know… that childlike vision would take on a life of it’s own to minister to others.

I painted a custom one for my friend who lost her precious daughter…

Then another for a friend with a chronic illness….

And another for a mom struggling to stay above it all with two well raised sons battling heroin addiction….

Slowly, friends began revealing their visions as a reminder to hold onto their truth….

YOU CAN GET THROUGH THIS MOMENT

with a promise of hope and not destruction.

Frozen fragments of life-giving hope…

all divinely captured by the one in need.

I feel that God speaks to us so simply that even a child can grasp it…

However, this world cleverly complicates and confuses His message of hope and promise.

It’s hard to catch this glimpse if you know what I mean…

It’s like catching a feather on a windy day sometimes….

but we need to hold on to these positive shifts and sear it onto the backside of our retinas/hearts

So I guess this is an invitation to get refined and realigned

instead of

defined and destroyed by discouraging circumstances.

I’d love the opportunity to capture your moment that allows you to

LIVE FULLY!

Instead of hermitting into a huddled hut…

Come Join JoJo’s Tribe…

and let me paint you a picture of hope.

It’d be a true honor!

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. Romans 8: 18-21

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