{"id":104,"date":"2008-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-27T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:04:32","slug":"painted-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2008\/03\/27\/painted-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2008\/03\/297_35259.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2008\/03\/297_35259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>A sunset like this speaks to my artist&#8217;s eye.&nbsp; No one could paint a sunset like God does!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And whenever I think of how He paints a sunset, I think of how He paints our lives &#8211;&nbsp;with His kindness, His meekness, His gentleness, His forgiveness.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Empty Canvas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>by John Michael Talbot<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">An empty canvas waits before the Painter<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It waits to be the painting it must be<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Unto this end it&#8217;s rightfully been created<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">To reflect the rightful beauty the Painter sees&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Jesus is the Master Painter<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Holy Spirit is the Master&#8217;s Brush<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">To be dipped within the colors<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That portray a Father&#8217;s love<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That the Master&#8217;s painting might be born of us<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">To portray the beauty of the Master&#8217;s Brush<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That the canvas of our life might know the Master&#8217;s touch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.  Psalm 19:1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}