Brenda Stichter, artist

Unspoken I remember, and maybe you do too, when a musician chose a new name and became "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince". He was known that way because the symbol he chose as his new name was unpronounceable - unspoken, one might say.  6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint with composition gold leaf on ArtBite panel Ready to frame Click here to view on my website. Romans 8:25 - 27 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.  In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings . And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. One of the artists who I met in 2018 at the Cape Cod workshop/retreat for artists of "serious art and serious faith" had recently moved from painting representational...

Extravagant Extravagant. It is a term that many of us these days would see as almost wrong, wouldn't w e? We should be frugal. Careful. Thrifty. Probably a minimalist. 30" x 22" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper, composition gold leaf Ready to frame Click here to view on my website. Recently I was moved to tears over and over in a church service we were attending. There was a group of men  there   from a rehabilitation facility - they come almost every week - and I could see them several rows ahead of me during the whole service. I was so struck with their beautiful, awkward, exuberant worship during the songs. Most of the congregation, like me, worshiped too, but our hands were at our sides or quietly lifted, and our bodies were not moving much. At the end of the service, the most expressive of the group of men chose to follow Jesus, and he broke down weeping. His brothers immediately surrounded ...