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!
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Kathy, your painting and your poetry are beautiful. I am praying for your lungs to fully heal. I have had pneumonia, it’s no fun. You are an inspiration to me.
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Thank you. I have COPD. And just started a daily inhaler. Hoping that will help. I love being outside but can only do so for short time periods. Did you ever get your memoir published?
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Hi Kathy, I’m so sorry that I did not see your message sooner, my computer got a virus and I haven’t been able to access WordPress for the past several days. I finally got rid of the virus, yaay! I am praying now for the Lord to heal your lungs of the COPD. I haven’t published my memoir yet, I am still writing, a little at a time, every single day. I never dreamed when I started that it would take me so many years just to finish my first draft!! Lord willing, I pray that I will live long enough to get it done and self published. I belong to a wonderful online memoir writer’s group, they are helping me a lot. Sending HUGS to you, dear sister in Christ.
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Glad to hear you’re still working on it. When I did mine I had to leave it alone for a few years before finishing. It was very cathartic for me and settled a lot of issues I’d dealt with for a lifetime. If I continue to live longer I’ll undoubtedly have to do a sequel. I’m happy to hear from you again.
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I would love it if you do a sequel! Please let me know if you do.
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Beautiful!
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Thank you😍
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Beautiful painting and poem, Kathy. Hope you overcome the cough, and you heal completely from the pneumonia, but I can tell your spirit is strong and yes, Jesus loves you.
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Thanks Pam. It’s always nice to hear your kind comments. My spirit may be willing but my body says otherwise.
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Yeah, I have that struggle too, everything truly, depends upon “Lord Willing”.
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