Aspens in the Snow

I Wisdom, will show you how to gather riches. You must keep a diligent hand, Treasurers of wickedness profits nothing. No matter how much the wicked labor, their profit will come to nothing.

Aspens in the Snow

Gallery Tour: This is a palette knife on canvas glued to masonite board. The warmth in the sky balances out this otherwise cold painting. In the Proverbs, there is always the comparison to the wise and the foolish or the dark and light. This painting is predominately cold, with a slight contrast of warmth.

Re-Stringing Pearls of Wisdom
My Son, everything is about choices. Solomon wrote with the same contrast, you can be wise or you can be foolish, it is your choice. Solomon warns the wicked who gathers treasures without profit. It is labor in vain. The deligent will gather riches in the summer and is a wise son. Summer to me, is the time when life is easy, trees are full of sap, fruit and leaves. It is much easier to gather in the summer than in the winter, when the harsh winds blow against your roots and strip you of all that you have gathered.

Words Solomon learned at his Mother's knee

Proverbs 10:1-5 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death. The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to famish, but he casts away the desire of the wicked. He who has a slack hand becomes poor,but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a wise son; he who sleeps in havest is a son who causes shame.