The Tree and St. Petersburg

Painting has been progressing ! I expect new works to be posted sometime in June.

It has been a dream of mine for two decades to see all the major museum collections throughout the world - in person (as opposed to books and the Internet). I have been to many, and now I want to conclude this dream - there is no better time than now. High on my list is the Hermitage in Russia. I haven't talked about this.

Last week, I received an Email from a friend of mine in Houston. She opened the e-mail with, "Jeff, Do you want to go to St. Petersburg, Russia in Sept. for a week to paint murals on hospital walls?"

St. Petersburg is where the State Hermitage is located in Russia. Barbara did not know of my plans to go to St. Petersburg or my special interest in seeing the Hermitage. Things are becoming very interesting.

Of course this trip is pending on answers I submitted to Mission Global Outreach, the organization sponsoring the trip. We shall see.

The 'Tree'

A call came in from Exhibitree requesting my work for hire. The timing is phenomenal. I am stupefied by the turn around in the momentum of my life from how stagnant it had become a few weeks ago, before I started painting clouds..

25 "So I tell you, don't worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.
26 Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds.
27 You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? Look at how the lilies in the field grow. They don't work or make clothes for themselves.
29 But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers.
30 God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you. Don't have so little faith!
31 Don't worry and say, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?'
32 The people who don't know God keep trying to get these things, and your Father in heaven knows you need them.
33 The thing you should want most is God's kingdom and doing what God wants. Then all these other things you need will be given to you.
34 So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

~ Jesus, Matt 6:25-34 (New Century Version translation)

May continued - Foundation For the Biblical Arts.. >> 5.23