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.

Monday, December 13, 2010

In Quiet Confidence

My name is Wisdom, I am Spirit. I have come to you in love. Surrender to me. I am the Voice of God, the Bride-Spirit.

I will follow you as you walk in the fear of the Lord. Quiet Confidence will be draped around your neck like a strain of fine pearls.

This confidence which others seek can not be bought with money. They will be drawn to you. It is an inner confidence that others can not give to you. It must come from within, it comes from Me as you wait for Me.

 Take my confidence, let me be as an ornament of grace around your neck and love upon your heart.




In Quiet Confidence



Gallery Tour: You are looking at a watercolor called "In Quiet Confidence". There came at a point in my life when leaving empty space took confidence. Someone once said, "It takes confidence to leave the white, without adding something just to fill up the page. It takes confidence to say it is finished when others do not see it finished."


Isn't that the way with our Lord, He says, "It is Finished". We can not see it finished. We try to add something else.


I painted this painting with the words of Isaiah on my mind. 


"In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength." Isaiah 30:15 "And "The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever." Isaiah 32:17 


Re-Stringing Pearls!


My Son, one of your attributes is communication. You are a man of few wordsm but your feelings go deep. You are known as a communicator,  it is a gift. You speak softly but with authority. Use your words wisely,  build others up, and allow others to come into your  quiet confidence as you express your gift.




Words from Solomon which he  learned from His Mother:
To know wisdom and instruction. To perceive the words of understanding, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity. To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion - A wise man will hear and increase learning and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. To understand a proverb and an enigma, the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:1-6
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