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2025 Calendar art and meditations

This year, the calendar is linked to 12 scriptural commentaries on meditative art. Jan 2025 Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT)Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. February 2025 Psalm 93:4 (NLT) But mightier than the violent raging of the seas,mightier than…

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Stories : Mustard seed

 

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Duke Divinity School 2021 -2024

What a beautiful and challenging journey! I met so many wonderful people during my time at Duke Divinity, some of whom I had the privilege of taking pictures with 🙂 There’s Max Miller. We sat next to each other through Old Testament classes under Dr. Strawn. Dr. Strawn is one of the top five professors who inspired me and spurred my imagination. I cannot talk about inspiration without mentioning…

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Selah Art @ Brown Gallery, Duke University

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2024 United Women in Faith, North Carolina Conference Spiritual Retreat

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New project

I am excited to share a new project I am working on. Arts.Based.Conversation for peacebuilding. It’s a research project on interfaith dialogue based on seeing and knowing. Let me know what you think at seb138@duke.edu https://abcforpeace.wordpress.com

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India's 75th Republic Day! (Jan 26th)

India’s 75th Republic Day!!! (January 26th 2024) Once again I prayed, Tagore’s prayer/poem Gitanjali 35 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of…

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Upcoming Event!

Join me if you are in the NC area. register at https://nccumw.org/2023/11/12/2024-spiritual-growth-retreat/

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Prayer is the greatest interpreter of Hope

In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine. Destruction of lives and property led me to my knees. In the summer of 2022, I prayed earnestly for Ukraine and Russia with my paintbrush. The result was Sunflowers and Chamomiles, the national flowers of Ukraine and Russia, respectively. My heart was particularly drawn to mothers trying to protect and provide for their little…

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Book review

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Humans are like trees

In this post, I consider the Biblical metaphor of Humans as trees… (I will flesh this out soon, but if you have any more to add or questions about some thoughts here do share them in the comments section below or on the FB page ) Psalm 1 – We are created to be like a flourishing tree near the waters, thriving in spite of the scorching heat, providing shade and fruit for other living…

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Chosen!

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Selah Art goes to Yale University

Selah Art goes to Yale University

For the first time, Yale University has accepted artistic contributions for The Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology. The conference will be held on March 3rd. I turned in two artworks amidst a hectic schedule of papers, readings, and exams. I am thrilled to bits and humbled by God’s willingness to use these works at this conference this year.   Here is the call I answered: Earth’s…

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Potter of Creation, Bhajju Shyam

Potter of Creation, Bhajju Shyam

Genesis 1: 26 – Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” Potter of Creation, Bhajju Shyam, 2015 The concentric pattern in the background sets your eyes…

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Created to Bloom

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Jesus as Dancer, Jyoti Sahi

Jesus as Dancer, Jyoti Sahi

Genesis 1: 26 – Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” —             Green and yellow are analogous colors that work well together to create this…