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Psalm 84:2b-4

�How lovely are Your tabernacles, ADONAI-Tzva�ot! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of ADONAI. My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young near Your altars, ADONAI Tzva�ot, my King and my God.
Blessed are those who dwell in Your house, they are ever praising You!
Selah.� Tree of Life Version

I love bird nests and I love color. I wanted to do something bright and cheerful. I usually begin with Scripture and then pray about what the picture should be. With this I did the opposite process, I painted it first and then asked for help for which Scripture my friends felt best captured this painting. They chose well don�t you think? Two heads are better than one! Thank you Vanessa Pate for this suggestion.

Picasso said that “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” For Karen, this is true. What you are seeing is a partial glimpse of her life’s journey. Karen Faire is an author and an award winning artist living in Fairhope, Alabama with Shane, her husband of 33 years. Before their marriage, she worked in the custom automotive industry painting airbrush murals on vans, cars, boats, motorcycles, and “anything that moved.” She fell in love with color and had an epiphany: “I thought that the only way to improve the color that I was working with would be to have light coming through it.” She knew immediately what her next medium would be: glass! She apprenticed in a company that made reproductions of Tiffany lamps. She...