Auction Time

This is one of those times as a person that when it rains, it pours.  I hate having pushed my last work down on the blog roll - so if you haven't checked out my latest paintings, please scroll down I am so proud of them!

The reason I am posting so soon after my last post is that a painting I've done is being auctioned off on another blog.  Amy, the author of Calling for Justice, is a past client of mine.  I did one of my largest pieces for her earlier this summer, you can check it out here.  In any event, Amy is a stay at home mom of three little ones almost exactly the same age as mine.  She is an extremely faithful person and is an excellent representation of how we should act when called by God.  She is a supporter of the IJM or International Justice Mission.  This group is a watchdog and protector of oppressed individuals all over the world. I was stunned by some of the stories of the individuals they have helped and liberated.  It is so easy to become complacent and put blinders on to the world outside of our own.  Sure we're having one of the crappies financial times of our history, but most of us still have homes or a roof over our head, still have the free will to have or to look for a job.  Most of us don't have to send our children out to work or worse yet sell them because we can't afford to care for them ourselves.  It is tragic.  Amy is doing her part by starting a blog that just talks a bit about these atrocities and is a simple girl trying to raise money for a purpose higher than herself.  When she did her last auction, I was moved and immediately emailed her and asked if I could do a painting for her to auction off.  I would send the painting to whomever was the highest bidder.  I have been blessed and this was something so simple that I could do, for a greater good.  So without hesitate below is the painting up for auction.  

Noah's Window

The reason I chose the title is because I think the sense of hope that the dove gave to Noah and his family is very much the same type of hope that the money generated from this auction will bring.  The hope that IJM brings to so many that are oppressed in our world.  I'd like to think that Noah, although faithful, looked out a window of the ark and saw the dove with the olive branch and exclaimed, "Amen, Praise the Lord, for He is good and He will care for us all!"

So if you are interested please go to Amy's site, Calling for Justice, check out her links and if you really interested, place a bid.  The bidding begins now and ends on Thursday at 9 pm, PST. All of the proceeds of this auction are going to IJM, not a dime will go to me or to Amy, nor will it even go to shipping, so if you want to help, you can, every little bit does.  

Thanks again to Leslie for my wonderful photographs and thanks to you for checking me out, have a great day!