Gallery:  Provision (detail)

Art Title:  Provision (detail)

Original art by Melanie Weidner
Created August 1999 - 11 x 15 inches crop, 22 x 15 inches original
Watercolor, collage on paper

Statement:
Provision represents my wrestling with the financial challenges of ministry and self-employment, along with theological questions of how God provides (and doesn’t) for our needs.  My emotional and mental responses are scrambled with the puzzles of these issues.  Yet when I trust the journey of life and the ebb and flow of abundance, I find a clarity of openness as I wait for sustenance.  I gave the woman in this painting white hair since I figured it would take me more than my whole lifetime to embody that kind of trust!  But isn’t she luminous?