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.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Yucca

I Wisdom, need to tell you how much God abhors false scales and takes great delight in just weight. The Lord is taking care of orphans and widows and anyone who can not stand up for themselves. God's holiness is the perfect weight. Learn from the Lord what He expects.
Yucca

Gallery Tour This yucca painting was done in the 70's. We were living in Las Cruces, New Mexico and I painted many yuccas with the Organ Mountain in the background. It was done with a brush only. Usually today, when I paint anything as rough as this, I always use a palette knife.

Re-Stringing Pearls! My Son, As prickling as Cactus' are, they are a balance in their environment. Unbalanced scales are an abomination to the Lord. As you govern your team, make decisions for them, keep in mind, the weak and the strong, the likely and not so likely, the introverts and the extravert's. Do not be partial in your judgment. There are those who have more talent, more skills, even more pleasantly attractive to you, be careful that you judge each person with God perfect balanced scales. You might discover that some you would discard is exactly the one you need to finish a task. When others are not tooting their horn, you have to learn how to hear the clear sound of their particular cry.

Words that Solomon learned at his mother's knee

Proverbs 11: 1-6 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight. When pride comes, then comes shame; but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them. Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way aright, but the wicked will fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.

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