Above is a scene from our gallery hop last night in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It was like this for the full three hours. Lots of energy and buzz in the room as we served everyone wine and cheese and helped them view and purchase some miniature art. I sold several pieces. I think all the artists enjoyed sales. I always enjoy these extremely enjoyable social events. Below is a photo I took of two great Canadian artists, Fred... Read more
I put this original pen and ink drawing up for a free giveaway yesterday. Altogether there were 123 comments. I entered the numbers into a numbers generator, and the winning number goes to Thomas Whitley of Shelby, North Carolina, USA. Congratulations Thomas! Please email me your mailing address. Thanks everyone for entering the contest. Stay tuned for next Friday’s freebie! Read more
I AM GIVING AWAY THIS ORIGINAL ARTWORK OF MINE TODAY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS COMMENT. And I ship anywhere in the world free too. Click on each image for a larger pic: I am very pleased to give away another one of my original pieces. This pen and ink drawing on Arches watercolor paper measures 4″x10.5″ (10.2cm x 26.7cm). Signed by me. It has a portion of Psalm 1:3 written on it. You can see the young woman... Read more
I’m feeling disoriented. I feel like I am a singer who no longer sings with the choir. I’ve gone solo. And I’m scared. How am I going to provide for my family? In spite of the readership, my blog doesn’t make any money. I will keep cartooning, but that doesn’t make any money either. I will continue painting and selling my art. But I tried being a full-time artist for a year a while ago. Not pretty. I know, from... Read more
Are we walking the path we’ve been assigned? And who has assigned it? Read more
I am familiar with betrayal. Jesus warned his disciples, his friends, that they were going to deny him, betray him and fall away. They all denied his predictions. In their hearts they sincerely believed that they would never do such a thing. It wasn’t until it was over that they realized what they’d done. It wasn’t until Jesus was being dragged away and looked into the eyes of Peter that Peter knew that Jesus was right. He did deny him.... Read more
Didn’t Martin Luther say that confusion is the highest wisdom? Didn’t Anne Lamott say that the opposite of faith isn’t doubt but certainty? Didn’t St. John of the Cross insist that the dark night of the soul was the richest spiritual condition? Didn’t Thomas Merton suggest that doubt is a necessarily corollary to faith, the rafters upon which faith is built? Didn’t I just read somewhere that saying “I don’t know” can be the greatest articulation of wisdom? Have you... Read more
This is my beautiful wife Lisa and me at our wedding that took place 30 years ago today. I was 21 and she was 19. I can’t believe it. Isn’t she stunning? Everyone comments on who got the better end of this deal! Why I wore white I’ll never know. I look like something from a Tim Burton movie. But this was the happiest day of my life. And they’ve gotten happier ever since. You know what I mean. We... Read more
This cartoon was provoked by something I saw on Facebook yesterday. Someone was thanking God for healing someone. They said something like, “God is awesome! We serve a God who always answers prayer!” Or something like that. I immediately thought of all the people who simply couldn’t say that. At least not now. This picture popped into my mind of the two realities that can be experienced in adjacent hospital rooms: one has just lost someone and is in complete... Read more
Pastor’s and leaders of all kinds are only human. One of the most difficult things to resist is the praise of people, even if deserved. Praise and popularity are fast-working drugs, and hard to kick. Remember Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”? Or Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”? These aren’t theoretical suggestions. Read more
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