Nanci Stoeffler {Expressionistic Artist}

Through the screen door begins endless hours spent dreaming and swinging, always believing I could touch the sky. Through the screen door abides magical memories of evenings spent on the back porch watching the storms roll in. Through the screen door is the path to the big, ol’ tree that sheltered my pretend world and guards the secrets that linger there, still. Through the screen door bellows my father’s can-be-heard-for-miles whistle calling my sister and me home for dinner

As we become adults we often forget or board-up the child-like songs that we were meant to sing. We fear their freedom or we get buried in all the to-do lists of “adulthood” — which often bury us alive. This painting, titled "Releasing Song", speaks to me of the beauty of a song once silenced now coming alive to enjoy its intended purpose: to be sung! I want to encourage anyone who has ears to hear, to discover and release the songs God has put inside of you that only you wer

On a Sunday morning in 2016, my fellow artist-friend Daniel Sulewsky stopped me at church and said, “You need to create. No more excuses. You have an anointing.” It was a powerful moment as I experienced an electricity come through me. As I left church that day contemplating what took place, I became incredibly grateful he took the time to listen to the Lord which led him to encourage me in such a direct and blunt way. I then realized it had indeed been months since I had pai

This painting speaks to me of the beauty, movement and motion of grief on the human soul. It is to our detriment when we do not allow our soul-self the necessary and poignant opportunity to grieve – whether it’s the loss of a loved one, or a move to another state, or the unexpected loss of a job, or the loss of what we expected our lives to be. Scripture tells us that “there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). When