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Quite a   Story   Behind the   Painting     God can do amazing things with our lives Ephesians 2:10 He has bless me and can do more than we can imagine. I loved art, coloring, drawing all       my life.  It was my favorite thing to do.  I guess you could say it was my hobby.  I took a year of art classes at college before marrying and having two children.  I continued to love to draw and began to practice in hopes of doing "something" with it someday.  I even managed to draw enough to enter an art show and have a showing in the local library of my work. I drew with ebony pencil or colored markers.  I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PAINT AND NO THANKS, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO LEARN. "No",  I told my sister Alive.  "I'm not interested in taking oil painting classes!  There is no way I have time." And, I thought, that would just be adding one more thing into my already too busy schedule.  Alice called me to say she was going to take oil painting classes at the junior college and being known in the family as the "artist one", she thought I might be interested in joining her.  But I wasn't. Alice signed up for classes and bought her oil paints but the class was canceled.  She called to ask if I knew about classes being offered at our church.  Yes, I knew of them and I gave her the church phone number.  She called to learn more.  Whoever answered the phone knew nothing about the classes.  I Knew there were classes because I was laying out the church newsletter and had typed that in the list of events myself. OPEN MOUTH INSERT FOOT.  It was only in the fall of 2005 that it became clear to me I was to paint.  In September 2005, I was preparing to give a talk to a room of ladies on "Priorities" at a 72-hour Christian spiritual formation event, the "Walk to Emmaus".  It was within the next few moments I recall vividly opening my mouth and inserting my foot. Or so I thought. The Rev. Ken Taylor was sitting across the room from me in the prayer chapel.  We had not yet had the pleasure of meeting, but I knew he was one of the spiritual directors for the walk.  He probably knew I was

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