Communication and Color Frequency Create Realism

This is the story and “play-by-play” photos of how a realistic cat portrait came to be, combined with a great deal of esoteric musing about frequencies of color and sound, and how these relate to an artist’s realistic communication.


This portrait could not have been completed as it is without a combined effort of shared thoughts and desires. I am very grateful to our Father and my Collector for enabling this painting's successful completion!




Communicating with Frequency

 

Color is frequency. Light is visible sound. Good frequencies create beautiful, intricate shapes and patterns. I believe when color is effectively used, communication is enhanced and others can see and feel a clear message.

 

There is a tremendous amount of interplay and communication going on between colors in any painting. In the media of watercolor especially, colors are slowly layered on top of each other and the colors on top of this thin stack of washes change and deepen with each layer because watercolor is a transparent media.

 

For example, painting a blue wash on top of a yellow wash makes green. Laying down a red wash on top of this green can make a grey.

 

Communication means the transmission of anything…while Communion means the joining together of hearts and spirits…these words have a lot of similarity and they relate to what a realistic artist is working to achieve.

 

Years ago, I once remarked to our pony veterinarian, Dr Tom Stuwe, “You must really love helping and being with animals.” He replied, “I’ve never had a sick animal call me yet.” I realized this kind man was as skilled at helping and calming the often distressed animal-owners as he was the injured or ill animals! He was an excellent communicator.

 

What We Cannot See Still Affects Us

 

Many who know me in real life are aware of my growing fascination with the invisible realm.

 

Over the last few years, the world containing God’s Spirit, as well as our spirit and soul (mental thought, will and emotion) has become more and more important to me.

 

At the same time the focus and interest in physical or visual things has somewhat faded due to my many travels and moves. I rarely seem to be in the same place as my remaining possessions and have realized I really don’t need a lot of physical “things” in order to live well and joyfully. The Spirit of Yah and the Natural world outdoors is thankfully everywhere I have stayed, and provides me great comfort.



Bonghan Ducts and the Human Biofield

 

People live out their physical lives inside of an unseen “bubble” - or toral field - extending out around our body and filled with invisible electrical connections. This is now known as the “human biofield”.

 

Anything having an electrical current running through them, people, animals and plants included, have this same living and active biofield around their body.

 

Recently I learned about "Bonghan Ducts".


Bonghan ducts are understood to be a type of circulatory and information system attached to our bodily electrical meridians, and found all over the body, floating inside and on the surface of our organs and lymph system. This duct system is thought to be a web of electric communication and made of a material too tiny to see with the naked eye. This Bonghan Duct material, containing matter, energy and information is also thought to be outside our physical body, in the plasma realm.

 

We perhaps don’t consciously realize how much our body is constantly communicating with itself and others, via digestive, respiratory and other hormone systems, combined with enzymatic reactions and electrolytes…I find these anatomical details fascinating.

 

All our bodily organs and tissues exist, repair and regenerate with syntropic unity on a moment-by-moment basis through different frequencies and functions Yah has designed, which are generated externally by both the power of the sun, and His aether spirit, carried and passed along through the air, the earth’s Schumann resonance, the negative ions found by running water, and I imagine even by sources like a tree's process of photosynthesis, catalyzing light energy and allowing leaves to turn carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen; plus healing and regenerating soils through thunder-and-lightning storms.

 

We also internally generate life-changing frequencies through our thoughts, words, actions and emotions. Our frequencies can be felt and analyzed by others – plants, animals and those of mankind.

 

When I paint realism, I have an opportunity to “touch” and “feel” an enormous degree of fine communicative detail on a color-coherence level. This is the reason why I mix as many of my own color shades from a small amount of primary colors. For instance, I used the same blue in the sky to mix the brown in Mittens’ coat.

 
The Average Scalar Frequency of Cats

 

While I’m not a genius when it comes to grasping the science of what’s going on in the invisible realm, I have seen diagrams of standing hertz sound waves for AM and FM radio, studied a bit about the vast range of other sound waves and understand there are many which can be heard and even seen by animals, but mankind has either lost this sensitivity or was not meant to see them easily.

 

My understanding of scalar frequency (also known as “zero point energy”) is small, but I “get” that scalar frequencies extend out from the center in circular waves, like the ripples a pebble creates when dropped on calm water.

 

Scalar waves contain and store information. LOTS of information!

 

I’m told Cats, in general, have a lifetime scalar frequency around 400 – the level of Intellect or Analysis. While the always generally tail-wagging, happy-to-see-you Dogs tend to resonate at 500 scalar frequency – 500 is known by one researcher as the Flow state.

 

Cats and Dogs have a higher frequency than many people, who have been measured, collectively, to exist and live at the lifetime overall scalar frequency of 100 - Fear and Worry; or even 75 - Grief and Sorrow. To me, this knowledge means it is becoming more and more imperative for the Holy Spirit’s healing presence to be accepted and received! People, worldwide, are in great need of Faith, Hope and Love!

 


Communication with Folks who Commission a Painting

 

I came up with a simple “marketing plan” several years ago. I made up a poster, explaining I paint realistic dog and cat portraits and hung them on a few Veterinarian bulletin boards. Time passed. Several years went by.

 

Then a young woman emailed me, saying she had seen one of these posters. She requested a dog portrait to give a friend who had recently lost his loved service animal. I painted this dog and she was pleased. A year later, she again contacted me, asking if I was still painting.

 

Her cat, Mittens, had died at the age of eighteen a few months earlier. She had raised Mittens since she was a kitten. My collector explained the details and I cried, sensing the importance of this loss in her life.

 

We discussed price and size, then the painting planning process began, with Mitten’s owner sending me several photos of her loved animal. In all, over the course of two months, I think we exchanged fifty-seven emails before her portrait was completed to my Collector’s satisfaction!

 

This is what Mitten’s backlit main reference photo looked like when I began:




Creation, for mortals, requires problem solving. And the Watercolor media, more than perhaps other opaque media, particularly requires planning ahead and thought on how to capture the essence of the subject matter.

 

I offer “satisfaction guaranteed” on all my portraits. This means if the Collector doesn’t like the end result, I won’t be compensated for my time. This gives me great motivation to paint a good piece from the start!

 

When I painted this piece last November, I had an injured atlas bone in my neck, which affected the sight in my left eye, I was also having trouble looking down and focusing with my other stronger eye…but I greatly needed paying work.

 

Take Small Steps Forward Daily

 

The start of anything so detailed is often daunting. But I have learned the value to small steps each day, which eventually build to the final product.

 

You cannot physically climb a mountain without taking one step at a time.

 

Perhaps when I began painting years ago, I had more questions about whether I could paint a realistic portrait. Now I just ask myself the question, “How do I best go about painting this?”

 

I had a lot of photos of Mittens in different lighting – photos taken inside a house and outdoors. I analyzed these. We also discussed what the background would look like.

 

The Dogwood blossoms were not the first suggested flower, but they were a great choice. I happened to be in NYC a couple years ago when the Dogwoods had been blooming and had many good personal photo references plus some I gathered online.

 

I chose a color palette which could be mixed to gain all the colors I would need – greys, browns, pink, green and blue for the sky.


After about a month of emailing photos and exchanging ideas, I began the painting, starting with a penciled tracing. 


I believe this painting was completed five weeks later. I always keep detailed records of when I paint but don’t have them available to refer to at present.

 

Portraits of someone you know – either a man or an animal – require capturing THE subject, not just any old face or animal. Because scaling photos takes a lot of time and eyestrain, I have gone to what I call "cheating", i. e. using graphite on the back of a photocopy, then I tape this down and use a pen to trace in the eyes, ears, nose, etc. I need the collector to recognize their family member!

 

This gives me a drawing on which to add color.



Then the real fun, or challenge, begins. Choosing the first wash color…Usually I paint back to front and light to dark.


I began laying in light washes of color, stroking with the hair, leaving the whiskers white. I did not use any masking fluid.



Mittens began to slowly appear and she grew stronger over the days of painting.

 

Because of the neck injury and eyesight issues, things went more slowly than normal. I was able to paint only a couple hours a day.

 

Realism is gained through training the eyes to first accurately see different tones and shades of color and then mix the color as well as paint it.

 

As a finger-style guitarist whom I love jokingly says, “It’s not as hard as it looks, trust me, it’s harder.” It is challenging to paint little fine details in color tone and value, but more-so when you begin painting. After developing the skill everything does become much easier!















I seriously do not know exactly how I first learned to advance from some stages of completion. When I was little and a beginning watercolorist, analyzing my own pieces was difficult. I would reach a place and not know how to continue. Saying, “I’m done” was the easy solution…

 

Then Phyllis Higgins, one of my early Artist Mentors, greatly enhanced my ability to see strengths and weaknesses in my own work. After her instruction and help, I could then comprehend how to go further at enhancing detail - without ruining the painting through over-painting it.


Growing up, I would also take my paintings downstairs to my family and “make the rounds”. “What do you think about this part, do I need to darken it?” I would ask…and my mother and siblings would make suggestions and comments. Sometimes I followed their advice but other times I did not.

 

Finishing a portrait and emailing a photo to a collector can be a bit scary. My collector saw my progress and gently requested Mittens have a darker back fur coloring. She also requested strengthening the blue sky and the background flowers.

 

Years ago, making final changes and attempting “improvements” could kill the painting…but it was good training. While I am still often uncertain I can actually improve an area, on this painting it all seemed to flow and come together! I was pleased because my collector had an artist for a mother, and had gained an excellent eye. She knew exactly what she wanted and her painting continued to slowly improve! And so, the finished work was a combined effort or analysis, greatly enhanced by Mitten's owner, who knew her fur coloring best.



Thousands of strokes and small color changes go into a large painting. And decisions, decisions, decisions. After completing a painting, I really have no desire to make any decisions, about anything!!! I just want to rest my eyes, body and mind.

 

And so, Mittens, Soft and Steady Companionship, sized 16x12 before being matted and framed, came to life.

 

I appreciate all my Collectors. I am grateful for my remaining eyesight which has enabled this fine-detailed work over many years. Our Father has been good to me.

 

Please let me know if you would like a watercolor portrait of a loved one!

 

With gratitude and love,

your artist-friend,

Elise



“ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;  Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” ~ II Corinthians 4:7-18


“We can never receive enough teaching on an intellectual level to make us victorious in life. Therefore, if we don't learn to fellowship with the Godhead in the realm of the Spirit, we will never progress very far in fulfillng our divine call.” ~ Dave Roberson

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” ~ Hebrews 4:12


“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever....connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” C. JoyBell C.

 

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” ~ Roy T. Bennett


“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” ~ I Corinthians 2:14

 

“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

 

“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein


”Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love…Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.” ~ Ephesians 4:13-16, & verses 29-32



Psalm 145


I will extol thee, my God, O king;
and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
Every day will I bless thee;
and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
and his greatness is unsearchable.
One generation shall praise thy works to another,
and shall declare thy mighty acts.
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty,
and of thy wondrous works.
And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts:
and I will declare thy greatness.
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
and shall sing of thy righteousness.
The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion;
slow to anger, and of great mercy.
The Lord is good to all:
and his tender mercies are over all his works.
All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord;
and thy saints shall bless thee.
They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom,
and talk of thy power;
To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
The Lord upholdeth all that fall,
and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
The eyes of all wait upon thee;
and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Thou openest thine hand,
and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
The Lord is righteous in all his ways,
and holy in all his works.
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him,
to all that call upon him in truth.
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him:
he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
The Lord preserveth all them that love him:
but all the wicked will he destroy.
My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord:
and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.



Sometimes a Light Surprises


Sometimes a light surprises
  The Christian while he sings;
It is the Lord who rises
  With healing in His wings;
When comforts are declining,
  He grants the soul again
A season of clear shining,
  To cheer it after rain.

In holy contemplation
  We sweetly then pursue
The theme of God's salvation,
  And find it ever new;
Set free from present sorrow,
  We cheerfully can say-
E'en let the unknown morrow
  Bring with it what it may.

It can bring with it nothing,
  But He will bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing,
  Will clothe His people too:
Beneath the spreading heavens
  No creature but is fed;
And He, who feeds the ravens,
  Will give His children bread.

Though vine nor fig tree neither
  Their wonted fruit shall bear;
Though all the fields should wither
  Nor flocks nor herds be there;
Yet God the same abiding,
  His praise shall tune my voice,
For, while in Him confiding,
  I cannot but rejoice. 


~ William Cowper 

published 1779

 



Visiting Fatherless and Widow

 Last November I heard a man speak about the number of orphaned children in the nation of India alone - over TWENTY MILLION!


Such an enormous number of children without the comfort and care of a parent…I began contemplating this but felt blocked about writing anything for months.


Then in December I began care giving for first one, and then in January two elderly widows. My ability to focus or have time to write a detailed blog post was pushed further back on the “shelf of life”.


I have felt in the center of Yah’s will, even as the serious health concerns of one woman became critical and while my level of decent sleep decreased.


My consistency and confidence as a blog writer has been a bit shattered but I’m going to write what I “have now” and post it. This “snowball” needs to overcome inertia!


The 18x24-inch (unframed size) watercolor painting illustrating this blog, titled Sheltered by Abundant Life, was created over six weeks last August through October, at the request of old friends who are starting an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Those interested may donate to their heart-work encouraging fatherless children here: Friends of Sycamore House

 


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Our Father has a lot to say about protecting and caring for the fatherless and widow. I have a lot to say, too.


I was raised by my widowed mother from the age of 12.5, when my dad abandoned us. It would be twenty-five long years later before he called me on the phone.


Over many years of observation, I have realized that men and women who were raised with two attentive and emotionally-mature parents cannot understand what it feels like to be raised fatherless or by a single parent.


But our Father in heaven does know, and does care. The Holy Spirit has come and comforted my heart many times over the years of missing and grieving for my lost dad and the memory of his loved presence in my life.


The Living God became my true Father. He protected, provided, corrected and instructed me. He answered my questions. He gave me lessons. He spanked me when I disobeyed. He moved me to many different locations so I could meet those who would train and speak into my life.


Good books have appeared, and their authors became my teachers, sent from God, too.


A good father supports His children – physically as well as emotionally, verbally, spiritually and intellectually. Our Father in heaven does this for me. When I cry out for help, He lets me know He is there. He never leaves me.


I am never alone. I do not travel “by myself” – the Spirit of the Living Yah goes with me!


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Suffering in life is relative to your Perspective, your Love Language and your Expectations.


To some people, they feel they suffer great injustice when their freedoms or perceived blessings are curtailed. Others welcome these infringements, believing they are being protected and do not suffer at all!


Our Father saw the enormity of my grief and challenged me to choose Joy. It was my choice to believe Him.


One’s financial acumen is often taught by a father.


One’s personal power to achieve and stand up in the world is often taught by a father, too.


Confidence, taking risks, setting goals and other masculine qualities are gained when you have a father cheering you on.


Proverbs 17:6b tells us, the glory of children are their fathers. Most children love to talk about and praise their dad, if they have one.


There are no perfect earthly fathers. Everyone has character strengths and character weaknesses. When I was a child, I knew my dad was imperfect, but I loved him for all the great things he was.


The memories I have with my loved dad are precious. He taught me to swim, to play the piano, to cook and to enjoy working. He taught me to speak what is true, and he encouraged my faith in the LORD.


While I didn’t have a dad long, I’m grateful I had the exact dad I did have. And I don’t know what it’s like to not have a dad at all.


I have noticed that many of my close friends had dads who died or were killed when they were very young. A few of my friends never met or knew their real dad at all.


This is a sorrow most cannot grasp.


Because children learn by watching and then copying the body language of their role models, children raised by one parent or no parents struggle with a great disadvantage, socially and relationally.


It is my personal comprehension that when a child is wounded in any manner by a man, living solely with women doesn’t heal this wound. A kind man must heal it.


And when a child is wounded in some way by a woman, living around or being with men doesn’t heal this area; only being in relationship with a kind woman can heal that wound.


Sometimes we don’t realize how important the quality of our interactions with strangers really is! We could be another link in a chain of lies, and distrust, or through our gentle words, actions and attitudes, we can help others break free of wounds, hurts and lies - to heal and become whole again, in their innermost heart.


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My sister shared a Chuck Missler message with me a couple months ago. In it, Chuck shares about the Paleo Hebrew language. Each word has a three-letter root.


The letters of Hebrew carry the meaning, not just the sound!


The first letter of this alphabet, Aleph, is shaped like the head of a Bull. This letter means “First; “Strength”; or “Leader”.


The second Hebrew letter, Bet, was originally shaped like a Pyramid and represents a House, Home or Family.


An Aleph and Bet together means the “Leader of the House”. Who is the leader of the house? This word is their name for Father – “Ab”, “Abba, Father”!


Chuck said if you take a “Heh” – a letter looking like “H” - hands lifted up; or an open window - which is “a breath or spirit” and means the “essence of the Hebrew word”. Heh means “Behold”; “Revealed”; or “Breeze, Wind, Spirit”.


If you put a “Heh” in the word - “Ahab” - that gives you the Essence of the Father.


And what is the essence of our Father in heaven, whom we must worship in Spirit and Truth/Reality – in the seen and not-seen world?


This Hebrew word, “Ahab” means Love.















The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:

I am come that they might have life,

and that they might have it more abundantly.

~ John 10:10



This painting depicts a Nigerian Sycamore Tree. There are several varieties of Sycamore trees, which are related to the Fig tree and bear fruit!


"The sycamore fig Ficus Sycomorus is native to the middle east and parts of Africa. The name sycomorus came from the Greek Syca-Morus Which means Mulberry fig. The leaves are similar in shape to mulberry and the fruit looks very similar to the common fig, except its smaller. The fruits grow on clusters attached to the bark."


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Sometimes it’s hard to realize you are blessed, when you don’t feel or see what you desire in life.


It took me awhile to realize I was blessed to have had the challenges I did as a child and young woman. They made me strong. My wounds gave me an understanding of my own and other's emotional pain.


When God says He is, "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation” in Psalm 68:5He is not joking!


“Judge” used here does not mean condemn, it basically means “to take care of”.


It is the same Strong’s Concordance word H1781,   דַּיָּן (dayyān) “judge” - defender or advocate - used in I Samuel 24:15:


The LORD therefore be judge, H1781 and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.


For many years I have been both Fatherless and a Widow.


Widows are generally thought to be someone who was once married but whose husband has either left or died. But “widow” also applies to unmarried women who have no man or father to care for, or protect them.


I remember how my sister’s life was saved from suicidal depression as a young woman, when she learned how God shows us in the Holy Bible how much He cares for the fatherless and widow.


Our heavenly Father takes especial care of those who don’t have fathers or husbands.


I have seen this in my own experience.


This is also shown in the accounts of :

·      Joseph – who was sold into slavery and removed from his physical father’s love.

·      Ruth and Naomi – widows in the book of Ruth.

·      Esther, whose uncle cared for her

·      Timothy, whose dad was Greek – but he was raised by his mother and grandmother


And the clear instruction to protect fatherless and widow is for all a huge call to responsibility and true religion!


Those who damage or take advantage of the fatherless or a widow in any way will one day have to face Yah.


We heard that a man who once stole wood from our woodlot then died very suddenly. It doesn’t pay to hurt or take advantage of either a stranger/immigrant, a widow or the fatherless!


Someone once told my mother, a few years after my dad left us, to “watch out for those who would take advantage of her”…”You’re too late, John,” she replied, “they already have.”


Many greedy men prey on those who are, for any reason – elderly or weak - unable to speak up for themselves.


They generally come under false pretenses, saying they want to “help you”. I know a widow who has pre-paid two different lawn mowers to mow her lawn – and they have both now disappeared, stolen her money and not come to mow her lawn,


It is interesting to me that God doesn’t say, “Visit the fatherless and widow, they might be having a hard time.” He presupposes they ARE in affliction, by virtue of their not having a father or man present to help them!


“Religion” is not a word used often in the Bible, so it is interesting how many people have given this term such a “bad name”, saying things like, “Religion is only about control, guilt and shame.” When really, this is what our Father says about pure, true Religion:


If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

~ James 1:26-27

 


A man or woman’s Religion, or worship, is not revealed by talk, it is shown by your life! It is demonstrated by taking Action to meet felt Needs. Giving the gift of Presence, Visiting and Caring for those whose hearts are sad and lonely.


The Greek word “visit” is ἐπισκέπτομαι, or episkeptomai, Pronounced: “ep-ee-skep'-tom-ahee”. 


To visit means:


1. to look upon or after, to inspect, examine with the eyes

A.           in order to see how he is, i.e. to visit, go to see one

i.                        the poor and afflicted, the sick

B.            to look upon in order to help or to benefit

to look after, have care for, provide for: of God

C.            to look (about) for, look out (one to choose, employ, etc.)

 

May we each extend our hearts and hands which give and protect - to those who are experiencing the pain of being either Fatherless and/or Widowed.


Perhaps it is good to have written this blog “late”, while visiting two widows and experiencing their needs.


May our Father in heaven guide your steps in His way,


With love, your friend who is Loved by our Father,


Elise

 


Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 

If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, 

I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, 

and I will kill you with the sword; 

and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.


~ Exodus 22:22-24


 

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, 

and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.


~ Deuteronomy 10:18


 

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.


~ Deuteronomy 14:29


 

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field,

 and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, 

thou shalt not go again to fetch it: 

it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, 

and for the widow: 

that the LORD thy God may bless thee 

in all the work of thine hands.

When thou beatest thine olive tree, 

thou shalt not go over the boughs again: 

it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, 

and for the widow.

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard,

 thou shalt not glean it afterward: 

it shall be for the stranger, 

for the fatherless, and for the widow.


~ Deuteronomy 24:19-21


 

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment

of the stranger, fatherless, and widow.

And all the people shall say, Amein.


~ Deuteronomy 27:19


 

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, 

and him that had none to help him.


~ Job 29:12


 

(But from my youth the orphan grew up with me as with a father, 

And from my mother’s womb I have been the widow’s guide),


~ Job 31:18


 

Defend the poor and fatherless:

do justice to the afflicted and needy.


~ Psalm 82:3


 

The LORD preserveth the strangers;

he relieveth the fatherless and widow:

but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.


~ Psalm 146:9


 

“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?” 


John Wesley



 

Remove not the old landmark; 

and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 

For their redeemer is mighty; 

he shall plead their cause with thee.


~ Proverbs 23:10-11


 

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.


~ Isaiah 1:13-20

 


Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, 

and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 

To turn aside the needy from judgment,

and to take away the right from the poor of my people,

that widows may be their prey,

and that they may rob the fatherless!

And what will ye do in the day of visitation,

and in the desolation which shall come from far?

to whom will ye flee for help?

and where will ye leave your glory?

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,

and they shall fall under the slain.

For all this his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is stretched out still.

 

~ Isaiah 10:1-4


 

They are waxen fat, they shine: 

yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: 

they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, 

yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.


~ Jeremiah 5:28 


“You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they’re divorced. It’s like you grow up knowing that you’re missing something important that everyone else has, but you don’t know exactly what it is. I remember hearing my friends talking about how their fathers wouldn't let them stay out late or didn't like their boyfriends. It used to make me so angry because they didn't even realize what they had. Do you know what I mean?”


Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue


I haven't read this novel, but it conveys the truth of how most fatherless or motherless children feel ~ e

 



Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.


~ Jeremiah 7:3-7

 

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

~Jeremiah 22:3



And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

 

~ Zechariah 7:8-14



And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.


~ Malachi 3:5

 


“My research continues to amaze and baffle me. As human beings, we are geniuses. What we didn’t get from the home, we find ways of getting elsewhere. It’s evident, then, when one looks at the stats we don’t have a teenage pregnancy problem and we don’t have a street gang problem. I will even suggest that we don’t have a drug and alcohol problem, nor do we have a crime problem rather, these are only the symptoms that we are experiencing, and the real problem is broken homes that result in broken lives.”


Drexel Deal


The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

 



When my father and my mother forsake me,

then the LORD will take me up.

~ Psalm 27:10

 

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.


~ Romans 8:15-17



“The text says that when the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, _he_ loved her. God was saying, 'I am the real bridegroom. I am the husband of the husbandless. I am the father of the fatherless.' This is the God who saves by grace. The gods of moralistic religions favor the successful and the overachievers. They are the ones who climb the moral ladder up to heaven. But the God of the Bible is the one who comes down into this world to accomplish a salvation and give us a grace we could never attain ourselves.” 


Timothy Keller, 


Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters




 Hymn:


Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise,
In deeper reverence, praise.

 

In simple trust like theirs who heard,
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word,
Rise up and follow thee,
Rise up and follow thee.

 

O sabbath rest by Galilee,
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence of eternity,
Interpreted by love!
Interpreted by love!

 

Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace,
The beauty of thy peace.

 

Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm.
O still, small voice of calm.

 

~ John Greenleaf Whittier, circa 1872

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