To our Father, and yes to everyone.....have you been on the mountain lately....praying solomonly with reverence...and just listening to your heart and soul...speaking to God in openess and with compassion for his great earth and Kingdom come...on earth as it is in Heaven. In our family we celebrate Thanksgiving together and we share with our fellow man and those who have less in some ways and more in other ways. We pray for your family, your friends and neighbors that they too will for this day be glad, lifting their spirits higher.
The painting I am sharing this afternoon is called "an ancient tradition" and is of sandhill cranes flying from Crex Meadows as the sun is rising in the East so colorful and beautiful. Each day is like no other day...each day is unique...alive and not one thing that God has made is identical today compared with all the past days...it is a new beginning...and as I age I see how Holy the Lord's creation is...the great love and care in every small detail of earth...nothing was left to chance...it is all his divine creation. Faith that is the substance of our lives...for when we breathe the air it sustains our bodies in every way...and the food and water we drink...is all life giving. So these birds they can't go to the grocery to buy some food...God provides...sometimes using man and his crops...but without God's seed there would be no crops or food...what a gloriful creation his seed is...and the seed of his people...and they come and they multiply...filling all the earth.
Long ago, our first settlers in America were not prepared and when their food stores were down the American Indian came to help....and to share in his bounty...to save those that might perish and they lived and went on to prosper....look at the blessings in America today. all from those earlier seeds of kindness long ago...so in America today our American Indian brothers are too, today in need of help as our grandfathers were long ago. You might not know but many groups are helping where they can...contact them and your support even $5 is a blessing and collectively they add up and help provide the sustance to support them in times of great need. Fast for two days and from the money saved pass this along to the less fortunate as God's blessing...no one is going to suffer and your help means a lot to others. Why have the government spend tax dollars...we are the people helping other people that comes first...no one left behind.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving...today I'm painting a beautiful wild stallion named,"midnight".from the wild horses in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Medora,ND.....and this portrait, like most of my animal portraits is worthy of the time spent to recaputre their awesome beauty. This painting teaches me that a horse is not just a horse, but is filled with God's living spirit and in his wild kingdom he knows no fear only to perpetuate his young and keep" an old tradition" alive and well for many generations to come.
Jimmy Springett-artist
