In study and service...

I find myself.

This (and one other print) was my birthday present to myself (well, not really...my husband's sacrifice made it possible to go pick it up on our road trip Friday). I was so excited to get some new art that I put it up as soon as we got home. I already had frames and matting that worked since I was replacing some other prints that I have long become bored with. Like this image, they were religious in nature, but they were bought years ago when I was in "my home is supposed to feel like a church" mode. So I literally bought prints that I had seen IN church. Not a bad thing really, I just never felt really connected to them. So I have replaced them with what some would consider real art (though I'm not sure how one defines the difference) and I do, in fact, just enjoy their presence more. I still believe that home should be a sacred and safe place for a family to feel protection from the negative influences of the world, but I am happy that I have found a more expressively ME way of creating that feeling.

Because I LOVE this particular print and it just makes me smile to look at the image of Christ teaching both Mary and Martha in different ways and it tells me that all sides of who I am are important and have their place in my relationship with Him. At least that's what I take away from the story and from this particular rendition of it. Thank you Minerva, and thanks Mom for introducing me to her beautiful work.