Isaiah 55:2-3
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good,
and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
Incline your ear, and come to Me.
Listen, so that your soul may live,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
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The default setting for life--work, eat, distract, repeat--yields discontent, isolation, and harm. Yet believing in promises and everlasting and abundance can seem hopeless.
Embody spiritual vitality.
*Annie Soudain is a retired art teacher with a studio in Hastings in East Sussex, England. Annie creates local landscapes from Fairlight, Pett Level, Rye Harbour, and Romney Marsh in watercolors, wax resist on silk, and lino printing. “Her deep enjoyment and understanding of form and pattern help us to see the natural world more clearly,” an exhibition catalog said. “Her interest in plants started in her early years spent in Cornwall, on long walks with her mother, most memorably along disused railway tracks where the cuttings were undisturbed and full of flowers and insects.” One reviewer of her autobiographical book The Marsh, The Sea, and The Sky, quotes her, “‘I am lucky that so far, I have never run out of ideas.’” Discover Annie’s art through prints, cards, puzzles, and tea towels at www.anniesoudain.co.uk
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