Quarai

This is a watercolor of one of my favorite places in New Mexico (Well, the places I have been to and remember at least).

I love to look around ruins like these because they have become beautiful through time. It isn't the building that interests me, it is the chips and fallen bricks that create an intricate, shifting, dancing pattern on the walls when the sun hits them and turns them fiery red. It is the tiny shafts of soft green that spring up at the roots of the walls, and the windows and peepholes where time has taken its toll.
My favorite time to visit is at sunset when the richest colors glow off the rocks and trees and the sky all around is brilliantly blue.
As much as I love this picture it could never do justice to the beauty God paints upon man's frail crumbling structure each and every day.

Soli Deo Gloria
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Lent through Easter

Lent = The past 40+ days leading up to Easter.

The Bad:
-I didn't follow through on my Lent commitments to read the New Testament or complete my 40 day drawing challenge.

The Good:
-I definitely saw God working in me over this time, blessing me through old friends and newer friends, using them to bring me grace and healing.
-I did not get on Facebook, which freed up time - Which I promptly filled with schoolwork and other diversions.
-I worked on an art project - finishing it on Easter, which has been a huge joy for me to work on, and as such a huge blessing to me this semester.
-I was asked to use my art as worship, which as crazy as it was, I did enjoy, and I hope it helped people to connect with God in some small way.

In the end I wish I had done a lot better with my original plans of drawing and reading. But I know that God still used this season to help draw me closer to Him in more ways than one, and for that I am able to rejoice in the Lord.

Happy Easter!

Soli Deo Gloria
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