Mixed Media, Grace, and the Red-breasted Robin

I awaken and the words tumble, like puzzle pieces waiting to be fashioned together.

Yesterday, I spent the entire day creating a mixed media piece inspired by a poem, “Broken Promises.”

My husband took the picture while we were visiting Yosemite National Park. This tiny forest creative delighted us then and delights us now in the form of a mixed media collage in the making. The poem and a photo served as the muse for an oil painting of a red-breasted robin.

I started by painting the bird and then adding K&Company Designer Paper by Brenda Walton.

Then I added the poem and other accents.

One of the many reasons I love art is its spontaneous nature. Like our unexpected visit from the little red-breasted sparrow, you just never know when the urge to paint or write a poem will appear.

I awaken and the words tumble, like puzzle pieces waiting to be fashioned together.

I think grace is a lot like art—spontaneous, free flowing, alive for the capture. We need only to still our troubled minds long enough to hear the Lord’s whispers. In that instant, we know He has revealed something so wonderful that it couldn’t possibly come from us.

These delights—art and grace—make our hearts sing…like the red-breasted robin, dancing on the forest floor.

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