The rainbow, What a gift God has given us in color. Bob and I were traveling home, the panorama of the hills and sky were in full view, and there on a giant canvas, God had painted two complete rainbows. It was twilight and the colors were vivid. Local residents were standing in their yards gazing into the lovely scene, We wondered if they knew 'from whence it came'.
As Richard said, to be an artist is to 'learn to see'. One of the first words a budding, beginning artist says is, 'I never saw like this before.'
There is no such thing as a red apple...God used many hues and many intensities of color to make a red apple. My challenge for you is to really look for the variety of color it takes to form the illusion of the simple round red apple. God spoke and it was so, using the invisible, but sometimes I must use 10 colors, maybe 15, [man's pigments] to create on canvas, a red apple. Also there is no brown tree trunks, green hills, yellow roses, or white snow, please, truly observe, look for the seeming invisible, find God's rainbow in something and post what you find. Manuscript Releases Volume Eight---PG- 32
Such scenes as we have on this ground cheer my heart and I want to know how many of us look upon the lofty things of nature and then return thanks to the God of nature? Do we see in the things of earthliness the hand of the Creator? It is the Christian that can set the true value upon everything that
God has given us on this earth. Every flower and every shrub, everything beautiful in nature calls our mind away from nature to nature's God. Who gave that beautiful flower its tint, its color? It was our heavenly Father. And you can teach your children that here is an expression of the love of God to fallen man. You can look upon the beautiful things of nature, blighted now by the load of the curse, and they represent but feebly the joys that are to come. You visit the most beautiful places on earth and delight yourself in them, and yet, "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, . . . the things which God had prepared for them that love Him! (1 Cor. 2:9)." How many there are that do not think of those things that God has given us. Now, if we could readily appreciate these blessings, then we would always be happy, but there is an enemy who is always working against us, so that the praise and gratitude
which should flow forth from our lips is often withheld."
Share a colorful 'beauty.'..
charlene