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  • Twinkie Dust & The New Creation

    “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.  I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?”  ~~ Isaiah 43:18-19 My favorite time in Vacation Bible School was the plaster handprint. When I was a child in the 1950’s, we were given our…

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  • Finding the Rainbow at the Center of it All

    “…he who has pity on them will lead them and by springs of water will guide them.” ~~ Isaiah 49:10 Last spring I was painting at an organic vegetable farm near Hot Springs. The owner’s dream is to grow food to help heal the world while taking care for the earth itself. I took my old…

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  • Generosity

    “But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, ‘When he ascended on high, he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his peoples.’” ~~ Ephesians 4:7-8   Generosity is a spiritual gift that marks one as having the nature of Christ within them. The human nature…

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  • Pottery & The Spiritual Life

    “So God created humankind (Adam) in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”  ~~ Genesis 1:27 A second creation account in Genesis 2:7 says that the LORD God formed the  man Adam out of the dust of the ground (adamah) and breathed into his nostrils the breath…

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