Nanci Stoeffler {Expressionistic Artist}

Sharing a journal entry from 2013: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Purified and Possible Thank you, Lord, for another day to test my faith in you, and teach me the ways that are deeper than the surface-dwelling life. As I was waking this morning -- the thought of another day to do boring, mundane and empty things, not working towards things of meaningful value – started to cave in on me. So I asked you for your perspective which caused me to consider the scripture I’ve been meditati

My temperament enjoys what is fleeting and frivolous. However, I also long for things permanent and enduring. Seasons are sort of both, aren’t they? They appear for a few months and then disappear, melting into the next one. However, we also know they will come around again – ‘same time next year’. Their fleeting is laced with an imprint of forever. And that’s something I sense in this painting. A recognition of the longing inside of me – stirred by the seasons – for all that