MY ISLAND - expressionism abstract painting by Lidija Ivanek (SiLa)

ABSTRACT DAILY PAINTER LIDIJA IVANEK FROM CROATIA
acrylic painting on stretched canvas 50x60cm/19.7"x23.6"
Painting is for sale. Contact through e-mail Lidija Ivanek

FICTIOUS ISLAND - abstract pastel on paper by Lidija Ivanek (SiLa)

ABSTRACT DAILY PAINTER LIDIJA IVANEK FROM CROATIA
Dry pastel on paper 40x20cm/15.7"x7.9"
Contact through e-mail Lidija Ivanek

When we were kids, it was normal to use our imagination, so why when we grow up, we are ashamed of it?
Last night I was playing with my imagination and I had some pastels at my hand. I try to picture my dream island, that place where I go to be with my Lord, where is a peace and beauty... where is no poverty...no disobedient, stubborn people...no greed... where everything stop to exist but on the same time it start to exist...the beginning and the end.

Do you have that place of rest? Do you know what that mean?

'The LORD your God is giving you rest and has granted you this land.'Joshua 1:13

"...to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest" Isaiah28:12

"Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said..."Hebrews4:3

PICK ME UP MOMMY - abstract modern painting on paper by Lidija Ivanek (SiLa)

ABSTRACT DAILY PAINTER LIDIJA IVANEK FROM CROATIA
Abstract acrylic painting made on quality cotton paper.
Size 29,7x42cm (11"3/4x16"1/2)
Painting is for sale. Contact through e-mail Lidija Ivanek
RED SPOT collection

For all adoption mommies. There is a baby waiting on you and I know how you feel in those long waiting times...
As Christians we know that God loves adoption because our own belonging in His family models it. We are not born children of God; we become members of His family through adoption. Through Jesus’s redemption, we have “received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’” (Romans 8:15; see also Galatians 4:5, Romans 8:23 and 9:4, and Ephesians 1:5).
There are over 20 verses concerning His command that we care for and not harm “the fatherless.” James 1:27 describes caring for orphans as “pure and undefiled religion.”
I sure wish that all Christians accept these words of God and save it into their own hearts, so I would never again here something like this: "It is not my call to care for orphans. I am waiting that God call me to do that...I have my own children to care for...etc." God have so many ways that we can engage into His work for children. It doesn't mean that everybody need to adopt. But everybody have the obligation to care for the orphans and widows in any way they can.

My RED SPOT collection:

PIGGYBACK RIDE - abstract modern painting by Lidija Ivanek (SiLa)

ABSTRACT DAILY PAINTER LIDIJA IVANEK FROM CROATIA
Acrylic abstract painting on gessoed board 50x70cm/ 20"x28", still wet, will be varnished with satin varnish
SOLD!

UPDATE:

IT IS ALL ABOUT TRUST

Child hanging on the back of his mother, supported only by her hands is so ordinary scene in Africa.
This morning, after I painted todays painting, I went for a walk with my dogs. It give me time to thing about the vision that is painted. God started to talk to me; "It is all about trust". You see, we, as new born Christians, we need to have that kind of trust in God, like a child into his own mother.
In order to trust in God, we totally surrender our will and our future into God's hands. We are secure in His arms. Through trust our relationship with God strengthens and our love for Him grows.
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6

God never fails!