Posts Tagged ‘Art and Faith’
Intergen Art & Scripture-by-Heart Online Workshop
SAT, October 25, 2025 WORKSHOP 5: Julie Drew Intergen Art and Scripture-by-Heart 9-10:30 am PST $35 CAD This creative session is designed to get your creativity flowing and connecting with the scripture in fresh ways. Julie Drew invites you to join her in exploring what God is moving in you as you learn scripture by…
Read MoreThere is a Time for Everything
Fall is here, the branches are bare, and the bitter cold winds are back. I brought my flowers in from the deck in to enjoy until they were done. My Gerber Daisy bloomed again, and the others have not stopped blooming. The flowers are all straining toward the window for the glimpse of light upon…
Read MoreHappy Easter
We were in Victoria over Easter visiting with our grandchildren and their parents. On Easter morning, we rose early. As the dawn began to lighten the sky, my own anticipation grew within me. My heart welling up in joy. Christ is risen, Indeed! I love the song I first heard Sandi Patti sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb1ayV5sTtM Was…
Read MoreBloom Where You Are Planted
I love wildflowers – maybe because no one planted them and they are just there to be. I am thrilled to come across fields of them when hiking. I look for them on the forest floors. Some are so tiny, they are easy to miss. They are not usually in cultivated gardens. That would, after…
Read MorePainting of Joy
When I was a little girl, the Christmas angel visited our home on this day while we were at church and left us each a gift. I remember the feelings of surprise and wonder and joy. Joy is a word we hang on our Christmas tree and in decorations. We sing about it at Christmas.…
Read MoreCelebration of the Weekend Retreat
Celebrating the Art: Vocabulary for the Soul Retreat an Art and Faith Retreat What a great group to spend the weekend with!! Friday night creating and getting to know one another: Taking a walk, enjoying the views We had a great time creating, listening and resting. We filled the walls with our…
Read MoreSteadfast Love Never Ceasing
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases,his mercies never come to an end;they are new every morning;great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 One summer I was at the beach in Oregon, just watching those crashing waves come in and pour over the sand and rock. I had been…
Read MoreErika’s Response to the Art Vocabulary of the Soul Retreat
Art, Vocabulary for the Soul RetreatJune 19-21, 2015By Erika Elektra Ewen (Reprinted from the Trinity Team newsletter of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Edmonton) In spring 2015, I picked up a brochure at Trinity Church entitled “Art Vocabulary for the Soul Retreat” which changed my life. Its contents stimulated me as the approach described was new and…
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