All things new...

So we slipped off the radar for awhile there. Though we had planned for a smoother transition, life was not so accommodating! It’s good to be back! Despite our lack of web presence in the last few months, our Richmond Christian Artist community is steadily brewing. God appears to be sending out little shots of new life here and there. In my own life, he added baby #3 to the Pheifer clan in February. As you might imagine, it has taken awhile for the schedule to re-boot itself. Though the days are quite full of homeschooling, feeding, bathing and chasing, I feel God leading me toward new “births” in the creative realm as well. I have received multiple words about new opportunities and doing things that I never imagined myself doing before. In June, I sensed that God was releasing me from my work in organizing and running The Reflecting Pool Art Gallery at Commonwealth Chapel. I feel a ting of sadness in letting go of a ministry that God has allowed me to plant and tend since it’s inception over four years ago. But as with most endeavors that I pour myself into, the end has revealed some hidden truths. Some are good…confidence, encouragement, accomplishment, community. Some bear a sting like that constant fear of being fully known, fully revealed and vulnerable. But experience has showed me that pain leads to growth. So, as I think on new things that God is stretching into my view, I plan to focus on simply and honorably being an artist, creating with all my chips thrown in.