Of all the pieces in the Milk and Honey collection, Where Gold Grows sits closest to the image that started everything. I have been carrying the idea of a golden wheat field for years, long before this became a public project and long before I had the visual language for the rest of the collection. The bees, rivers, vineyards, lemons, waterfalls, and honeycomb all came later. The field came first.

Everyone wants the payoff of the Promised Land, yet so much of Scripture takes place before anyone ever arrives. What the Wilderness Holds explores the idea that the wilderness is not simply a place of waiting, but a place where healing, provision, resilience, and grace are already at work long before the fulfillment of the promise comes into view.

I've been sitting with the ideas of Milk and Honey and the Promised Land for quite a while now. And yet, there I was sitting in a doctor's office again when a single word settled into my mind: bittersweet. In an instant, the painting I'd been struggling with suddenly made sense. This post explores the story behind When Bitterness Turns Sweet and why some of life's most meaningful transformations happen when God works through the very things we would never have chosen for ourselves.