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They came to me, announced yet still a surprise, as two sisters who spent their life together entertaining others and were now ready for not so much a new life but a different life. Dressed up in a statement piece worthy of any Haute couture constructed by hand from start to finish, made from high-quality, expensive and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable of sewers—often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. They met up with the country girl where cotton is not only queen but reigned in her own atmosphere of “put your feet up and stay awhile“. They were taken one by one for their makeover as these fine ladies were to bestowed upon two other little ladies who too shared so many events as a gift to rework from their great gram to their gram to their dad to their other gram in remembrance. underneath all that stitching painfully revealed previous work worthy of whalebone stays with a “dressmaker”style meshed with an abundantly used electric staple gun creating a task that rivaled a veterinarian pulling porcupine quills. this one has stash pockets! and this one has the bling!! sisters for sisters, so different, so the same

"...You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." — Max Ehrmann, 1927 Excerpt from Desiderata Just as the Bird of Paradise plant unfolds one new leaf at a time, given enough room to spread out and unfurl its great leaves, and then blooms for a bit and then rests for a bit, so to does the path we walk here. In Colossians chapter 2 it says 2 "I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God's great mystery. 3 All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we've been shown the mystery! 4 I'm telling you this because I don't want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or "the Secret." 5 I'm a long way off, true, and you may never lay eyes on me, but believe me, I'm on your side, right beside you. I am delighted to hear of the careful and orderly ways you conduct your affairs, and impressed with the solid substance of your faith in Christ. 6 My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you've been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him." Everything of Jesus cries out for us to be at peace. “ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” ... "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope." And it is the one thing that we as His children struggle with. He says it does not have to be that way. Read you bible. This is WOVEN. Unfolding one leaf at a time and creating the ultimate path. "...With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." and I will see you on the other side. Blessings. PRINTS AND GICLEES available at https://www.propheticsgallery.com/store-warehouse/art_print_products/store-warehouse-la517swyspk

I paint for Jesus and as He decides. However, I have painted on occasion for commission. I was approached to recreate a complicated photograph of a tree that reflected into a pond. It was beautiful! And I agreed. As I began to study the picture and began to think about how to sketch it out, I noticed it was a reflection of a reflection and heard a big "NO!" from the Holy Spirit. I questioned Him, and He replied that nothing of God is a reflection of itself. That is the devil's domain as he tries to imitate the Father's beauty by creating a perversion of it. Sneaky! Since I had agreed to create a piece for the person, I asked if it was still okay to do something from Him for them. He agreed. And this piece came about with my first big lesson on strongholds. I heard its name, Balm, as in a sweetness that heals wounds or reduces pain. When J. C. Philpot preached on Jeremiah 8:22 in 1852, he pointed out that God's grace is always greater than our sin: "There is more in the balm to heal than there is in guilt to wound, for there is more in grace to save than there is in sin to destroy." Strongholds are defensive structures and can be either a good thing as in 2 Samuel 22:3 My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge; My savior, You save me from violence." (KJV) or a bad thing as in "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds." 2 Corinthians 10:4 (KJV) The devil calls us by our sin. God calls us by our name, and I was shown fifteen apples representing sins bobbing down a stream of honey, reminding me of Proverbs 16:24, "Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." And God's grace is always greater than our sin:" (KJV) All these apples were going the same way, some floated higher, some seemed entrenched, yet all were interconnected by the ripples each other made. All reflective of Adam and Eve's original sin. Yes, that apple. Entrenched. A pretty good description of a stronghold. Not budging. Dug in. Adamant. Fixed. Deep-seated. All keeping the barriers to God in place. They are readily seen in ongoing arguments with the people who ruffle our feathers. If we look at ourselves, we may find the culprit hiding in these same feathers. But those are the easy ones. If God is walking with you, He is also teaching you to align your thinking to see Him clearer, that it may be you and not them. The harder ones come off an enlightened, politically correct, divisiveness, fear, health-related thinking, control issues, any extreme thinking, and so on. I finished the painting and presented it to her, free of charge and she was dismayed and would or could not accept it, which is okay. She still saw it. She cannot unsee it. As in all things God, His light never dims. Ever. For more information on strongholds, please see Max Lucado as he describes dealing with strongholds at https://maxlucado.com/strongholds/ Now lets get to the good part!! Romans 8:38, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Woot! See you on the other side!! 🎶 Row row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream. 🎶

In 2017, I saw seven ancient earthen lamps perched on the Western Wall in Israel in the midday sun. I could feel them radiating the heat they had absorbed for centuries. I could smell the old air they contained. I understood they had been used just as long to wail prayers to our God. I saw the prayer notes tucked into the crevices of the wall as reminders to God to not forget His promise. And then this painting, called The Seven, sat for four more years. And then, in 2021, it was time to finish it as its verse sanctified it from Isaiah 11:3, came "He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;."​ These vessels, each representing the seven manifestations of the Holy Spirit, are associated with the ministry of Yeshuah; and prophesied by Isaiah. The three fires are noted in Isaiah 11:2, "And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;" for the fruits of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear of the Lord and judgment. This prophetic painting, a wall to stand by to wail righteous prayers to God, will benefit spiritual warfare to win in the ongoing wars with the powers of darkness. The symbol for this season is to be a burning light as a waiting, watching and winning warrior connected to the high frequencies of grace stepped down to contain in our fragile vessels of clay that only God be glorified as we stand in prayers by Zion's wall.​ Burn brightly for Jesus. And I will see you on the other side. PRINTS and GICLEES available at https://www.propheticsgallery.com/store-warehouse/art_print_products/store-warehouse-g7fxzfj0ydw

THE BLOOD DIAMONDS. This is the Parable of the Tares. Matthew 13:24-30 Identical plants, almost. Where the wheat will nourish life, the tare will cause severe illness. The parable says that during the final judgement, the angels will separate the sons of the evil ones (tares) from the sons of the kingdom (wheat). How to tell the difference? Philippians 2:10, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth. The wheat...bows when ready for harvest. The tares...will not. From the chaff of the wheat comes the diamonds. In Matthew 3:12, it says “that He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” And from this fire comes 9 diamonds, symbolic for the fruits of the Spirit, red from the shed blood of Jesus. 1 John 4:4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. JOHN 10:27 “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me”

As I worked on this, I heard the voice in the roar "DO NOT HURT MY CHILDREN!" and He showed me Joel 3:16 "The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel." Amos 3:8 "The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?" The ROAR! The very frequency of its sound wave will cause the vibrations in the wedding glass to exceed the forces holding its crystals together until it finally shatters. In Jewish wedding tradition, the prayerful Breaking of the Glass is symbolic of the hope that your love for one another will be consecrated for eternity. "As this glass shatters, so may your marriage never break. And so it is with God, the bridegroom. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the image of bride and bridegroom was used to symbolize the relationship between God and the people of Israel. He called His people to faithfulness to His teachings and declared His eternal love for them. This was then later adopted in the New Testament where Jesus was envisioned as the bridegroom sent by God as in Revelations 21:2 "And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband." And now at long last I understand the beauty of the Lion of Judah paintings. In Jeremiah 12:15 “but after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. 16 and if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my Name, saying, “as surely as the Lord lives...then they will be established among my people...” Because God is good, it does not always hurt when the light goes on.

I dreamed of an old door with the knob and a deadbolt painted in chippy white. The vision remained as vivid as I first saw it. It was installed on an open door, a way out to join the others leaving. In my last vision, the portals were just beginning to escape the rising waters. This time they have started their ascent from the hills. This portal is called Unlocked. 2021 Isaiah 55:12 “For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands. John 10: 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. PRINTS AND GICLEES available at https://www.propheticsgallery.com/store-warehouse/art_print_products/store-warehouse-efnd-wv1mew

This is called TO PRAY and as I pondered on the Word and communed with the Holy Spirit, I saw the Holy Spirit himself rising up out of the tear drop of Jesus as He prayed in the Garden. ​ The night before Jesus Christ was crucified, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. In Luke 22:44 we see that His sweat was like drops of blood: “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground”. Scientists have given this phenomena the name of Hematidrosis, an actual medical condition where vessels can constrict and dilate to the point of rupture where the blood will then leach into the sweat glands. Its cause—extreme anguish. In the other Gospel accounts, we see Jesus’ level of anguish: “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death” (Matthew 26:38; Mark 14:34). ​And yet as He says in John 16:13 " Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." This painting has been a long lesson in letting go. Letting go of human created props when talking to Jesus just as it says in Romans 8:38 "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." God watches. God listens. God sends His love and His help. Depend on the kindness of strangers. Ask. He can help. Until the other side then, blessings to you and yours.

This looks long and I apologize. The word editor says it 3 minutes. Bear with as this is one of my favorite bible stories. 😊 Reading the bible and asking Jesus to walk me through it has put me in the position of a fly on the wall as I talk to Him about it as I read. One of my most favorite stories is the five loaves and fish story because it is so current!! It is the side story in it that just intrigued me about prosperity for nothing. Prosperity. Is it an illusion? Is it money? Is it health? Is it the proverbial carrot always being dangled to keep going? Keep reaching? For what? And then what? More? Ahhh... the human race on a constant gerbil wheel looking ahead. Jesus says that in Him and with Him there is always enough. Always. You know it! Look back and see how things got resolved. The money came through. The bills came and went. John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. I hear my grams voice saying “waste not, want not” in coaxing us to clean up our plates like in John 6:12 When they had enough to eat, he said to His disciples “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” ... There is enough. Look at what you have. Bless it. Say thank you Father. And share. Yes there will always be more. Food will arrive. The bills will get paid. And just how do you "make" this happen? Matthew 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'" my gram sings 🎶 Be present at our table Lord. Be here and everywhere adored. These mercies grant that we May feast in Paradise with Thee. 🎶 Amen. This oil painting and its story is called Relevant for “there is not only always enough but then some” in depicting the story of Jesus being able to feed 5000 men from 5 small loaves of barley bread and 2 small fish from the book of John 6:8-13. How’d He do that? In verse 11 “Jesus then took the loaves, GAVE THANKS, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.” ...13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the 5 barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. And just as many thank the chef for a superb meal, these people wanted to make Jesus their king. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.” 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. So they followed Him to Capernum! Why? More free food! Picture it! Its the morning after the big impromptu feast and as they seek Him out rubbing their now bellies for a free breakfast and the thought pops into my mind of attending time share proposals. “All you have to do is listen to our talk for 45 minutes and you can be entered into the drawing for a free pickup truck!!” Well how’d that work out for them? Just like it says in John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” Oh rebuffed!! Followed by the “oh you caught me! 😬” 28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Followed by how to make amens. 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” 33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.” In this pic is a takeaway regal foil swan as we are sitting with the king! Along with the easily available, airtight and watertight storage container representing Gods Word which has an eternal shelf life. The lids off and we see the Girl Scout cookies symbolizing “knock knock anybody home?” There are others, Mexican breakfast pastries and the classic Easter traditional Hot cross buns timeless since the 12th century Anglican monk baked the buns and marked them with a cross in honor of Good Friday and added spices inside signify the spices used to embalm him at his burial. See?! Everything good always leads to Jesus. Bon Apetit! And let’s do lunch on the other side. ~DeniseRenee Dahlheimer https://artontheoutskirts.wixsite.com/home/post/holy-leftovers

Revelation 4:11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” Yes God breathed life into all creatures. And what God makes is a beautiful thing. It says in Proverbs 12:10 “Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel." This proverb is very clear. Whoever is righteous will have regard for the life or the care of their animals, whether they are pets or livestock, the mercy and care given to those who care properly for their animals is very pleasing in God’s sight. And this beautiful boy here was blessed indeed and blessed in return. 😊 Meet Frankie Baby! “Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.” – Franklin P. Jones

So he said to the (paralyzed) man, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” This is from Mark chapter 2 about the story of the paralyzed man's healing. It is Powerful!! Incredibly powerful. His friends went to great lengths to get him there to see Jesus. They obviously cared about him or maybe they just need help at work, either way they all knew Jesus could help. And Jesus did! He saw the effort they had put forth and granted them their request. He said “Son, your sins are forgiven” And then the “authorities” piped up and tried to undo all of it by negating Jesus’ authority to forgive. How many of us use our crippling reasons or excuses to not make the move?" How many times have we felt the urge to make a call, do the thing, stick with what we know out of comfort or fear, not gift, not relinquish, not give in, not back down, not give another a second chance, refuse to see "it" from "their" point of view, hang on to ideals, or have hidden your love of Jesus rather than be laughed at…? Jesus not only negated these teachers authority but He did one better. He not only forgave the man but healed him as well. Jesus loves us. Jesus fights for us. Jesus always wins. And said (to you) Get up, take your mat. And go home. You either will or you won't... Whose authority will you abide by? Till the other side then.

John 5:14 says, "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us." True! Here I have tried to recreate a picture of what I see as I sit in my chair and read my bible out loud and I have seen it is true just as written in Psalm 66:17-20 - "I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!" Even though at times it seemed I walked alone, I knew I was not. Even though at times I reached out to others to what ... miserate (?) for there was not any co-miserating as often the trials I endured had not touched them. They could not empathize with my plight. No they never had a family member that could say that kind of thing. No they never could imagine a parent not standing up for them. No the thought of being ostracized for believing in Jesus was foreign to them. No they never lost anyone close to them. So I talked to Jesus. He understood. He had been through it. He assured me that yes I was loved. Yes God was proud of me. And even though all fall short of the glory of the Father, He still loves them all very much. In the back of my thoughts were or was it deep in my heart that "maybe someday someone will get IT" for what we sow so shall we reap kind of thinking tinged with a little "what goes around comes around' thrown in I fancied the thoughts in my lesser days. But as always God knows what He is doing and yes as always "God I do trust you! If "they" understood the misery I am in then I would be wasting our own one on one air time Father. I would not know you now as I do. Going through the trials has been my booster step up onto His lap and into His mercy. And now that I know this and "get" it, I am witnessing those who had seemed to have skated troubles are now going through it. And you know what? I feel for them. I can commiserate with them legitimately. I can point them through the shortcuts and straight on to Jesus bypassing the scenic routes. I care about them. Does it help to see them suffer and learn? No. Will I say "I told you so!" Absolutely not. Will I take their calls only at my convenience or whenever God says? For it is at Gods convenience that I live to serve. I will trust in the Lord always as The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.” -Psalm 28:7 See ya on the other side then.

Stand strong and be of peace. This is Pomegranates and Chains of Solomon's Temple. This oil on gallery canvas is call Blessing.

Is it pass ON… the hurt or is it PASS… on the hurt?