They Call Her Blessed!


Enjoy the e-gallery of Betty Slade and her paintings of the "Women of the Wind Series". This collection of paintings are the impressionist Southwest women seen through the eyes of Proverbs. Also there will be added southwest landscapes and adobes.

Dedicated to My Son Stephen,
A Leader of men, a server of tables, and full of the Holy Spirit. My charge to you is that you lead with wisdom, serve with kindness and walk in the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
Then you will complete your name, Stephenos, a crowning glory.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother -- for they will be an ornament of grace on your head, and chains about your neck.

Proverbs 1:8,9

Many of the Proverbs and Wisdom have been written in the female voice. This is wisdom that King Solomon acquired sitting at the feet of his mother. Her endearing name for him was King Lemuel, and the utterance which his mother taught him is found in the Proverbs thirty-one Woman.

Lemuel means devoted to God. So is this group of paintings with words from the King and defined in the heart of the artist, Betty Slade

He concludes his proverbs with the portrait of the Proverbs thirty-one Woman. He recognizes the attributes of a godly woman; her beauty can not be compared but excels beyond the many daughters who have done well, and her husband and her children will call her blessed.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Fulfillment

I Wisdom, am the Spirit of fulfillment, I will deliver you from evil, I will teach you uprightness. Allow me to enter your heart, I will be pleasant to your soul, you will have discretion which will preserve you. As you walk with me, you will find fulfillment. Not fulfillment of things, but of understanding and wisdom which is everlasting.

Live with a full heart and be fulfilled.


Fulfillment - Watercolor full sheet

Gallery Tour: I, Wisdom am your gallery guide. You are now looking at Fulfillment. This painting has a beautiful movement, moving your eye around from the mother's face to the baby. This painting is hanging in the Western Bank of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This has been made into a Christmas Card. There is a sweetness about it, this mother is fulfilled. She has produced the next generation.

Re-Stringing Pearls of Wisdom!

My Son, as your mother, I desire you be fulfilled. It is something I can not give you, it must come within. Fulfillment comes from surrendering to your Lord and God and allowing Him to teach you about yourself. He made you in His image and only He can build you up on the inside.

I can give you instruction, but only you can take those things you learn and allow God to transform you into the man you are to be. You are a leader, you can look on the faces of your employees and see what kind of leader you are.

If their eyes are full of light and life, then you have succeeded, if they are dark and dull, pray for them, lift them up to their potential, by giving them their dignity. When they are fulfilled, you will be also.

Wisdom will deliver you from the way of evil, allow wisdom to enter your heart and be full.

Words from Solomon which he learned from His Mother:

Proverbs 2:10-13 When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your sou, discretion will preserve you, understanding will keep you. To deliver you from the way of evil,  from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of rightness to walk in the ways of darkness.

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