Milk and Honey Day 30: Inheritance
Inheritance is about far more than money. Long before we arrive, others are already shaping the ground beneath our feet through the stories they tell, the values they model, the traditions they create, and the sacrifices they make. As I worked on the Milk and Honey collection, I found myself asking not only what I have inherited, but what I am cultivating for the people who come after me.
Milk and Honey Day 25: The Lemon Tree
While working on When Bitterness Turns Sweet, a poem began to take shape alongside the painting. The Lemon Tree is a reflection on patience, transformation, and the surprising ways God can take what feels sharp, difficult, or unwanted and turn it into something worth sharing
Milk and Honey Day 22: Why Create Beauty in the Wilderness?
The message behind Milk and Honey hasn't changed, but the past few weeks have reminded me why it mattered enough to paint in the first place. A reflection on wilderness seasons, the tabernacle, and the role beauty plays in helping us pay attention to God's faithfulness along the way.
Milk and Honey Day 16: Why Milk and Honey?
Milk and Honey is more than a collection title. It's a vision of abundance, restoration, and the kind of provision that extends beyond survival into legacy. This post explores why a wheat field became the foundation of the collection, and what it means to cultivate a life marked by hope, stewardship, and the belief that what is planted faithfully will eventually bear fruit.
Milk and Honey Day 15: What We Carry With Us
Most of us own very few things that truly matter. The objects we carry from one season of life into the next often become more than possessions. They become anchors, reminders of who we were, what we survived, and the future we are still building. This post explores why meaningful art so often finds its way into our lives during times of change, and how the things we choose to live with quietly become part of our story.
Milk and Honey Day 14: The Places In Between
Some moments divide your life into before and after, and once you cross them, you are no longer quite the same person. This post explores why I’m drawn to painting transition spaces like roads, rivers, wilderness landscapes, and horizons, and how the process of creating art mirrors the difficult, beautiful work of becoming.
