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Recent live painting: Refuge

Photo transfers, collage, acrylics, wax pastel, color pencil and pressed dried foliage on canvas by Judith Monroe
Refuge – Photo transfers, collage, acrylics, wax pastel, color pencil and pressed dried foliage on canvas (36×48″) by Judith Monroe

 

As I prepared to paint for our worship night a couple weeks ago, I prayed and meditated and God gave me some images of wings and a nest with eggs. In my own personal symbology, I have come to associate wings and feathers with angels and a nest with heaven, the place that Jesus went to prepare for us, so I felt good in using this as the basis for my painting, and a background of clouds seemed fitting. After I was done painting, my daughter told me that the imagery made her think of Psalm 91, which to me was a confirmation that God was speaking. My prayer is that he would speak to you through this imagery, too.

 

Psalm 91
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”