ART & POETRY BY KATHY BOECHER

Recently, I picked up my watercolors and started painting flowers. It was not yet time to get into the garden and I’m still struggling with a cough acquired from pneumonia. There are times when our creative resources are diminished by our physical health. So instead of digging in the dirt, I found another way to enjoy my flowers. My daughter and her family gave me a beautiful hydrangea plant for Mother’s Day. It is a most lovely color. It was fun mixing the paints and trying to replicate the different shades of purple and blue. I discovered that I really like this medium and the affects you can achieve with very little paint.

So, now the weather is good. I’m still coughing but feel it will be a way of life for me. My beautiful plant is in a big container outside my window, so I can enjoy it every day. God’s beauty comes to us in so many forms. All we have to do to enjoy it is to look at it. Many of my perennials are beginning to flower so pinks, reds, yellows and whites are dancing all over the place.

THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR ANOTHER DAY!

When I grow weary from the weight of life,

When every step becomes a heavy strife,

There’s no relief, no respite for my load,

The path is full of obstacles untold,

Each pothole, crag and deep embedded crack,

Becomes too much for this old, weary back,

But God is there at every twist and turn,

To raise me up when troubles start to churn,

To take the weight and soften every sting,

To wash away my tears and make me sing,

He’s with me everywhere that I will go,

Because my Jesus loves me, this I know!