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Morning
Snow Glory Testimony I
woke up at 6:30 am and as I looked out the window I saw the backyard
still covered in snow. Snow
fall is few and far between here in Southeast Georgia.
I was startled by all the white beauty as it clung to everything
in sight. It has been a
decade since we had the last snow and even then it never covered as this
February storm of 2010. In
that moment the Lord spoke to my heart and said, "Morning Snow
Glory." I knew He
wanted me to paint it. A
picture formed in my mind of Vann McCall's Granny house covered in snow.
The previous year I had painted one of the same house called
"God in the Hunt." Within
the hour, my daughter Sheila was out capturing the moments with her
camera. We wanted to get the
atmosphere before the sun would come out and melt it all away.
I knew exactly what I wanted to portray; the Lord had it engraved
in my mind. Those early
morning moments just before the sun when a silence fills the air and the
only stirring is from animals and birds. The
light from windows would still have a glow about them. As
I went into the studio to prepare for the days work, I prayed and asked
the Holy Spirit to partner with me. Let us dance together as I begin to
paint. He brought to my mind
a picture of a beautifully painted egg with a scene inside signifying a
captured moment in time. A
border that would be rounded around the corners. An invitation leading
into the scene before you. As
I prayed, I mentioned to the Lord, " It sure would be nice to get
an actual picture of the house surrounded by the snow."
By 10:00am that same
morning I got a call from my dear friends who take pictures for me and
they said, "guess what we got!"
my reply was, "pictures of Vann McCall's Granny house in the
snow." She
had woke up early and the Lord had told her to go get pictures of the
Granny house in the snow. As
they came upon the scene there were some does crossing the road across
from the house. I knew then
that I was to add the deer and a doe along with the birds in the trees.
I shared with her how the Lord used her to answer the
desire of my heart.
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Morning
Snow Glory February
12, 2010 is a captured moment in time. Early
in the morning as the light of day dawns. The
air is crisp and cold. There
is no breeze this morning as the snow blankets the ground and rests on
every outstretched limb and structure. Birds
are singing in the morning as they fluff their feathers to keep warm. The
overcast skies are as picturesque as the snow aiding to the ethereal
mood of the hour. The
captured moments of the camera reveal a hint of blue to the snow color.
A
light fog rising is evaporating giving the trees a misty look of
surrealism like a painted Christmas card. A
hart leaps silently across the yard as the glow from the window kisses
his antlers and back. He
is alert and swift with hind’s feet as he follows the waiting doe.
A
mystical border invites you into the painting as you study the light
from windows aglow; imagining a hearty fire in the hearth to sit close
with that first cup of morning coffee.
A Bible in your lap as you meditate upon the Lord's morning of snow glory.
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