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My brother lives in Missouri and on one of my visits, he and his family took me to this wonderful preserve near the funeral home where we had been making arrangements after our mother�s passing. We needed the break and were all calmed and comforted by the beauty of the natural surroundings. We saw deer and wild turkey on our wordless walk. On our return we walked by this body of water as the sun was nearing the horizon. We were in shade, but the trees across the pond were gloriously capturing those last rays of light. I had heard that the name for the prayers at this time of the evening in liturgical churches were called Vespers or Evensong. How appropriate, evening prayers in God's outdoor cathedral. It seemed as if the LORD was ministering to our aching hearts through this gentle passage giving us hope.

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...