Original oil on panel 2.25"x3.25"Unframed with mini display easel
©2009 Diana Moses Botkin
I'm currently surrounded by reminders of our precipitous existence here on earth. My friend Sandy lost her battle with pancreatic cancer. And my Uncle Marvin also passed away yesterday.
This past week I was outside in the yard picking up walnuts from our tree. As I was gathering the fruits and removing hulls, I thought a lot about Sandy and Marvin who were both hospitalized and near the end of their lives.
God puts these simple reminders everywhere of the soul. I noticed them last spring when I painted my maple seed series and am reminded again with these walnuts. That outer hull, once green and alive while the fruit was growing, eventually rots away, revealing the inner part which is the real substance.
Psalm 139:16
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
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