No One Can Contain the Flight of the Soul

     I was listening to a song with the phrase "No one can contain the flight of the soul...", and "They don't see that real freedom lives within, so carry me away Lord"  This has so inspired me because it is true that I sometimes feel as if I am in a cage...a cage of my own body, a cage of expectations, a cage of demands and responsibilities, a cage of my own wants and desires or a cage that others put me in.  Like a caged bird who longs to fly.  What I have missed is that I CAN soar on the wings of my soul...I can escape to other realms in praise, prayer and the melody of a song.  Misty Edwards expressed this during the song I referred to above.  She also sang, "put your hook in my heart and let my soul take flight as I sit in this cage...carry me away Lord"  I CAN fly, and no one and nothing can contain the flight of my soul.  I can be free...and freedom from the restraints of a cage is really resonating with me right now...God carry me away --
This painting was done in the strength of this inspiration and the wing colors, although I didn't know why at the time of it, refers to the wings of a phoenix I believe. Restoration from the ashes. There could be multiple other meanings for you...let me know of some you can think of.

The Boundries Have Fallen For Me In Peaceful Places

I was reading my latest magazine edition of "Discover Britain" and saw a photograph of a most lovely and peaceful home and garden. I set about to capture my version of this place...how I would envision it with color and wilderness.  A place hidden and private, sunlit and colorful - a place to be free and at peace.  I can hear the birds sing and the water's flow, the sun is warm and the home is decorated in rich texture and color...heavenly music permeates the atmosphere and creativity is unbridled. This is a place of total physical, spiritual and soul rest.  The heart longs for this place, and here it is...I step in.
Isa. 32:18 "My people shall live in peaceful habitations...and undisturbed places of rest"

A Doe Set Free

I originally had this image come to mind while I was reading the Bible, the passage where Jacob is speaking a blessing over his sons before he dies. When he is speaking to Naphtali, he says "You are like a doe set free"...Gen 49:21 I just had to sit back and sigh (kind of like a selah). What a beautiful feeling, to be set free! I saw this image of a doe springing forth from the darkness that had her confused and lost and into the light of God's face. What a prophetic picture of myself at this time. A form of darkness and confusion had clouded my vision and had me living powerless and in anxiety. I HAD to paint this image, if only for myself...to say, I am Free!! Remember! Like King Solomon the lover, "leaping and bounding over the hills..." Song of Songs 2:8 Like "calves released from a stall" Mal 4:2 or, "...then will the lame leap like a deer" Isa 35:6 "As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs after You" psalm 42:1 This is me...this is you. May this image bring you freedom.