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  His fingerprints are all over us

  Nov 1, 2024

  I’ve always considered myself an artist, not a writer. This oil on canvas (15X30) holds a special place in my heart. In 1965 I sought an art teacher to teach me how to paint. Her name, Cynthia Guzavich, an old German lady, who lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Each week for several years I drove to her home, joined her class, and learned her technique and style. She opened my eyes to the world of art and I became alive to see beauty in everything.
  
  She created a floral arrangement to paint. It represented items from the area—cattails, dried flowers, leaves, cotton, red dried chilies and berries, all grown in the southern part of New Mexico. She’d say, "Look." She'd hold up a fist of cotton and turn it so I could see how to shade the cotton bowl. She'd paint a shadow on the ceramic vase in the shape of the leaf. "See how the shadow lifts the leaf off the vase and tricks the eye." With a circle of dark ochre and a tiny brush, she taught me to lightly touched the canvas making thistles from the center of the ball, adding white as I dragged shorter strokes from the center with a three-haired brush.
  
  I learned how to create a three-dimensional picture on a two-dimensional surface. Her fingerprints were all over this painting even though my name is signed at the bottom. I couldn’t have done it without her.
  
  This is how God works. The great Creator places His Spirit in us. Once we were dead in our spirit. Believing in Jesus, our spirits become alive with His Spirit. We are three-dimensional—body, soul, and spirit. He teaches us how to live a spiritual life. His fingerprints are all over us as His Spirit lives in us and He conforms us to His image. He opens our eyes to the world around us and we begin to see His beauty He has created. 
  
  He uses whatever is around, in season or not, friends or foe, cattails or weeds, or circumstances, all to create His image in us. He brings people to teach us how to be who He intended us to be.
  
  I live in holy awe of God, who has continually revitalized me, implanted his passion in me to please Him and used other people with their gifts to complete me. We are blessed.
  
  Be inspired.

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