Choices
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Mary Wigley – The prodigal son turned from the father and entered into sin, bringing great suffering, separation and despare. His world and life became empty of joy and dark indeed! Returning to his father, in humility, to perhaps receive the scraps of his table resulted in forgivness, love, and rejoicing because he had been lost and now was found. This represents our returning to the heavenly Father, bringing us from death to life. The choice to come from darkness into the light and freely receive the gift of love and life from the heavenly Father brings great joy. The choice is ours.
The Return
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Pat White – Each of us, sometime in our lives, journeys away from and eventually returns to our Heavenly Father. Both the journey and the return are necessary for our spiritual development. In “The Return,” the daughter is home from her travels and is sharing a meal with her mother in celebration of her return.
The Journey
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Pat White – Each of us, sometime in our lives, journeys away from and eventually returns to our Heavenly Father. Both the journey and the return are necessary for our spiritual development. In “The Journey,” the woman is is just embarking of her travels, dressed for her trip, and steadfast in her intent.
The Lost
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Grace Wever – This is a collage based on Luke 15:13, “the younger son…set off for a distant country, and there squandered his wealth in wild living.” The work is a fabric collage constructed of hand-dyed cotton, silk, and synthetic fabrics, with some transparent, translucent and metallic fabric overlays. The prodigal son’s figure stands transfixed at the edge of a forest, its path glittering with fools gold. Visible in the dense tree canopy are shadowy figures representing the underworld. While he stands poised in indecision, swirling overhead is a figure representing the protective world he may be leaving behind forever, unless he repents and returns to family, love and blessings.
The Famine
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Kenna Westerman – When I re-read the prodigal son’s parable, God sent a famine. I don’t remember this part in the story. To me, the story was more focused on the son and his father. When I think of famine, I think of a lack of food, barren land, and desert. God sends a famine several times. Why is this used? What can be learned from it? While looking for a photo to represent a barren place, the thought came to me, where in my life am I a barren vessel? What can be learned from this? These are the questions that can lead us closer to God in order to find the answers and make us full again.
Lost on Petit Jean Mountain
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Kenna Westerman – As a child, I was intrigued at how important that this sheep must have been for a shepherd to take the time to go look for it. I didn’t understand at that time that this parable was about more than sheep. I lived in the city, so I couldn’t apply that story to myself. Working on this piece and placing this sheep on Petit Jean Mountain, it came to me that it doesn’t matter where we live; we can all become lost with our busy lives. I realized how we all are important to God and no matter how many times we wander off and become lost; God is always there, waiting to give us the directions we need to make it back home.
Quick!
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Peggy Wenger – The prodigal son’s father’s FIRST WORD was “QUICK!!” He’d been watching the horizon a long time, and when that boy appeared in the distance, he sprang into action. He made no verbal responce to his son’s well-practiced speech but began barking out orders for the party to begin! His acceptance and kindness toward his son was never based on the kid’s behavior. Isn’t that amazing?
He’s Home!
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Peggy Wenger – As I reread the story in Luke 15, what struck me this time was that the father never spoke to the son. He saw him coming in the distance, was thrilled, and started barking orders to his staff. It didn’t matter what the kid did or did not say. HE WAS HOME. Let the party begin! God’s reaction is the same. His love for me does not depend on my performance
My Son
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Tyler Weddle – This painting depicts a loving father’s arm outstretched to reach his lost son.
Unconditional
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Elizabeth Weber – When meditating on Luke 15, I was filled with an absolute realization of the nature of His unconditional love, and from that space, I began to paint. At first the canvas was dark and represented the way I sometimes feel in life, but as I continued to paint and held the image of a Love that was Unconditional, more and more warmth entered the canvas. In the end, two distinct areas of brilliant light–one emanating from above and the other from an area below (me)–replaced all the darkness within me.
Return to the Source
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Elizabeth Weber – This painting comes from the space of that moment when we realize that the reason our lives are so hard and that we struggle to make it through each day is because we have forgotten we are not alone. Our eyes are opened to the fact that we are no longer walking with God. In that moment, when we turn again to God as our Divine Source and accept His outstretched hand, our wings spring forth from our backs once again. Our earthly troubles fall away like old torn garments as we accept our robes of light. In doing so, we are “enlightened” and our spirits can once again be unfettered as we “Return to the Source.”
Lambs of Kenya
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Hannah Watson – Luke 15 talks about the lost sheep and the rejoicing that took place when the innocent lamb was returned safely. I took this picture in a Masia village in Kenya, and these two young children have grown up herding sheep in their tribe. They are God’s sheep as well, and my prayer for these two is that one day they’ll be found.
Tears of Joy
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Chandler Watson – I tried to capture the emotion of the father when he saw his son returning home, an image that came into my head when I heard Mrs. Parker read the parable.
Siblings
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Jessie Ward – I thought about sibling rivalries and the way that we develop as people begins from the moment we’re born. Even though the parable was directed at a specific audience, it’s interesting to consider the two brothers and what might have happened in their lives to make them the people that they became in order to apply those thoughts to our own lives.
Once There Was a Story…
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Jessie Ward – Luke 15 is a difficult passage as the basis of artwork if you don’t want you art to be a narrative artwork. However, the passage is a narrative because it’s a story. I wanted to take that narrative and present it as it is–a written and oral narative, rather than an illustrated narrative. My focus was on the narrative aspect and the feeling of story-telling rather than depicting the narrative scene by scene. In addition, my thoughts were on the three persons of God and the fact that I am His child in relation to this story.
