ART & POETRY BY PAUL & KATHY BOECHER©

This painting depicts a simpler lifestyle. There’s something about growing up on a farm that puts a certain balance in life. Competition isn’t an option. Hard work and integrity are. Putting in a twelve-hour day is a necessity not a means to gaining more wealth. Families are bonded by their working together, eating together, having fun together and living life together. God is usually at the center of a farm family, because they know the power of prayer. As we wind down this last week of Lent, repentance has been heavy my mind. Our sins requires a Savior, because we are incapable of getting rid of them on our own. Again, God came to the rescue. He took our sin and placed it on the back of His Only begotten Son. The perfect sacrifice. The Lamb without blemish. God with us, who took on human flesh to experience our condition yet without sin. The hoards of people who sang praises to Jesus when he entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, would quickly change their tune a week later. They were looking for a worldly king, but God had a better idea as He usually does. He put His creatures first. There are so many ways we can imitate Christ and his humble servant attitude. I believe that if we each do a random act of kindness each day, we’re following His lead. Not doing those acts because it’s being added to our list of good deeds, but because He loved us first and this is our way of thanking Him for His gift of salvation.