This oil on canvas painting it titled: Sparrow Song. It is the work of the American Impressionist painter, Elizabeth Blaylock. She writes about her painting: "The beauty of the sparrow is often overlooked because they are so plentiful. This is a Chestnut Crested Sparrow. Lots of rich siennas!"
The artist is paying attention the subtleties of sienna (the color red-brown). There are fifty kinds of sparrows in North America alone. Each species has its own unique features distinguishing one from the others - God's tremendous creative imagination. But isn't this how God sees, knows and accepts each of us - in the subtleties of our personalities, the pages of our personal histories, the depths of our inner self (our souls).
Oh, that we would trust this and be glad! God's got his eye on the little sparrow - how much more is God aware of us. We might be tempted to just X out now, but let's not do that. Let's consider the rich siennas the artist references in her Crested Sparrow and the wonderful promise of the Gospel verses.
The artist is paying attention the subtleties of sienna (the color red-brown). There are fifty kinds of sparrows in North America alone. Each species has its own unique features distinguishing one from the others - God's tremendous creative imagination. But isn't this how God sees, knows and accepts each of us - in the subtleties of our personalities, the pages of our personal histories, the depths of our inner self (our souls).
And Jesus said, "Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not a single sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge...Never be afraid, then - you are far more valuable than sparrows." Matthew 10: 29,31
Oh, that we would trust this and be glad! God's got his eye on the little sparrow - how much more is God aware of us. We might be tempted to just X out now, but let's not do that. Let's consider the rich siennas the artist references in her Crested Sparrow and the wonderful promise of the Gospel verses.
