I have waited for you, I have cried aloud outside, I've raised my voice in the open squares. How long will it be until you turn to me? I will pour out my spirit on you, I will make my words known to you.
Turn to me, make your footing sure. I have waited for you.
You must also learn to wait. Seek me with a single mind. Otherwise, you will be tossed to and fro like a ship on the waters, or like a ldouble-minded child.
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Gallery Tour: Waiting, watercolor, full sheet
This painting was the first one I painting in this series. It just happened. The year was 1986.
On the top of the adobe is the cross and it witnesses the heart of the maiden. Today I wait for His return, maybe she too is waiting for her lover's return. Her face is hidden, only He will know her heart and read her face.
There is no explanation, when Spirit births an idea or creative notion. You can not explain it. It comes like the wind, you can not tell where it comes from or where it will go. This was the way this painting began and it became the beginning of hundreds of paintings in the "Women of the Wind series."
This body of work has an etheral and wispy quality, much like the Spirit. The faint images are transparent with only a line or a color to represent their form..
This series was named by my good friend, Betty Lucero. In 1990, I had just opened a Signature Gallery, Lucero walked in the door in a hurry; and like a whirlwind she began to move inventory around, redoing displays and when she came to this body of work, she said, "Her name is Women of the Wind".
Would I know the impact of this series at the time? No. It was in a time when I was ambitous and driven and I did not know about waiting. I had my eyes on Jesus and also on my ambitious art career. I was double-minded and I was driven by the winds of commerce, success and approval.
A woman came in to the gallery and said, "All women know what it is to wait." I learned that lesson but it took years of waiting.
Re-stringing pearls of Wisdom
My Son, waiting has been in every prayer and every cry for you. Yes, Wisdom cries out for your completion, but patience has had its perfect work in ME, so that I may be perfect and complete, lacking northing. (James 1:5) Yes, Jesus taught me about His Love as I waited on Him for your return.
Yes, you have been my completion. As I cried for you, I cried for me.
Words from Solomon
"Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city.
She speaks her words: How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge. Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you." Proverbs 1:20-23
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