Success, Sweet Conviction, and Uneventful Inbetweens

Lord, this is significant that so many people want to buy my art.

And, significant that You have so valuably and sweetly shown me to start planning a focal point in my paintings.

John Mark Comer is right that, “We should expect our work to be a mixed bag… to give us a sense of meaning and purpose and to be regularly frustrated by whatever it is we do. (Garden City, pp 176)

I can’t find satisfaction ‘under the sun’ — in this life apart from You.

But, by being with You, and working with You, I can be “indifferent to getting slain in the duel” and be obedient to You to use the talent You’ve given (Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor). 

Help me to paint in service and love to the world and for Your glory.

And more so, please do this work with me. 

Thank You for calling me to partner with You and be with You.