11/10/2025
As a portrait artist, mixing paint with all its intricate value and hue changes causes me to reflect on the awesome majesty of our Creator. Especially now as we age, the honor of seeing slight changes in hue is rare (according to scientific discovery), and when times demand that I put my brush down for health reasons, God never fails to fill me with hope.
I paint the shadows of the reality; truly, we see only the shadow of the majesty of Gods glory as we live and breathe. Believers even now have the eternal promise in our hearts:
“Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end. This Son perfectly mirrors God, and is stamped with God’s nature. He holds everything together by what he says—powerful words! After he finished the sacrifice for sins, the Son took his honored place high in the heavens right alongside God, far higher than any angel in rank and rule. Did God ever say to an angel, “You’re my Son; today I celebrate you” or “I’m his Father, he’s my Son”? When he presents his honored Son to the world, he says, “All angels must worship him.””
Hebrews 1:1-6 MSG https://bible.com/bible/97/heb.1.1-6.MSG