Her name is Mercy, She is 5 years old. She loves to learn and she loves people. She is a picture of hope for her country, Rwanda, recovering from the scar of genocide. For a better future…where everyone is the same.
Cover artwork for ‘Something Wicked Horror Anthology’ (2005). (mixed media, photography, digital painting, watercolour)
this dandelion in all of its seediness glory was somehow still completely intact.
with night comes mercy silvery remains / line the darkness / internal star / bring forgiveness
Pastels on paper 120×70 cm Sold it and this is the highest res copy I have crrrrrrap. What the fuck is going on? What are we doing? How can we ameliorate our lives with simplicity when we know what we know? Or think we know. / Shit shit shit shit shit shit. / I have a huge lack of understanding. / That sentence was supposed to continue, but stopped somehow. Burns me up. You even have Cat In The Hat Pajamas, and I mean, how cool is that? / Excuse me, I just thought I would skirt ambitiously around the subject for a while. I have no idea what to say and am feeling a little romantically disturbed by attempting to begin to break my silences begin to gnaw at the old gauze, reeking and tough, that covers my lips. / So. Today is a day for honest extremity. Makes me feel more at home all of a sudden. I feel much more comfortable when everything confuses me. I always feel like some small and viciously real creature is crawling up the back of my scalp and whispering that it’s all a lie when I have some semblance of feeling in control. / Nothing like a spanner in the rabbit. / I have climbed my way back into my safety haven and behaved like I had supposed, had always supposed that I am supposed to. Security wraps its warm but a little spiky arms around me once again. I’m so desperately trying to sell out that I even manage to forget the oaths I swore to myself when I was a teenager… and when they creep into the back of my mind I slap them around with a few extra anti depressants and paint a happy picture (I am lying why am I lying I cannot and have never been able to cheat with the lines and colours of my work. They betray me in acuity, in dread. And the meds do nothing. I have taken none for months at a time, I have taken ten times the dose for months. No difference. Side effects. Shakes, rashes. A median of despair punctured with pinhole panic; with sobbing collapse. Degrees of sickness inviolate and unaffected.) You actually know what I’m talking about. How strange. Catharsis rears its unlovely head. / I have desires I can’t even begin to describe. There is something about losing your mind that is more real than anything else, more tempting and free; a claw hook in the back of a healthy brain. / I never thought you took me seriously. (Why would you how could you why would anyone?) / I have hesitated and stuttered and smoked too much and stared at you when you weren’t looking. Allowed myself to pine. / We are fools in a world that does not tolerate fools. / I have looked and looked, and I always thought that feeling this way and being trapped by the sadness, the sadness… / I thought – that this was a common excuse for not living. Not doing and earning like everyone else. / It isn’t a common excuse. It’s an uncommon reason. I would like to spend a week with you and just see how similar we are; just for once talk to you for long enough without being interrupted to know, maybe to just stop lying. Can you imagine that? Honesty in life seems impossible, but it might not be between us. / The fallacy expands. / How often do you lie a day? Think about it. Coming to each other and saying: / “Well, today, I really thought about suicide, and I had to make myself eat even though it made me want to puke. I felt each movement I took as a jarring blow. I spoke to other people… other creatures in the world even though I could not find my breath and I gasped and clenched my uncertain weak fists. I still spoke because I had to I had to and the rope the knife they swell rotten and sweet in every turn and thought and they live in the fear booming in my heart shivering through my feet as I step through the world. / “But I am alive and I have my hands before me and my scars are old. I have lied well enough to hide, for this time at least. / “I thought it took all the strength that I have to do these things, but it took more to them to you.”
This elderly lady is one of the oldest inhabitants in the quaint town Villa del Totoral in Cordoba, Argentina / /
“Who will proclaim My great Mercy,I shall protect them Myself at the hour of death,as My own glory. / And even if the sins of soul are as dark as night, / when the sinner turns to My Mercy gives Me the greatest praise and is the glory of My passion. / When a soul praises My goodness, Satan trembles before it and flees to the very depths of hell”...I felt healing energy when I painted this and even now it has been digitally enhanced…first experimental digital enhancement of my painting .. inspired by the prayer…..’listen to your heart.. 100% proceeds wateraid ..! featured in ‘Art for charity’ ...
Candid, Folsom Street East Leather Festival, NYC 2008 SOLD Copyright
I heard an Angel Singing / When the day was springing: / Mercy, pity, and peace, / Are the world’s release. Words by William Blake Acrylics, inks, graphite and gold leaf / 100×42 cm on paper
When i think of Peace.. i see a bright white light with soft pastels, it feels soft, inviting, not judging and warms my heart. Hope when you look at my painting you can share in my feeling.. Featured in CORE / Featured in True Potential Mercy now Info over Sing Mercy Now by Mary Gauthier / “One day not too long ago I received an e-mail from a wonderful young man in Israel, Shay Guwetta, telling me that he’d recorded my song Mercy Now in Hebrew. When he sent me the MP3, I loved it. I put it up on my web site for everyone to hear, and told people about it at shows. A few weeks later, I played a private party in Manhattan, and I told the story about the wonderful cover of Mercy Now in Hebrew. Well, I had no idea that the Palestinian Ambassador to the US was in the audience. He came up to me after the show, and encouraged me to come to Palestine. He seemed a little put off by my glowing endorsement of the Hebrew version of my song. It dawned on me that I’d love to have an Arabic version of Mercy Now in addition to the Hebrew version. Then it hit me that I’d love to hear a version of Mercy Now translated into in as many languages as possible, especially the languages of places where war and political upheaval cause great pain and suffering. I am inviting musicians from everywhere to send in a version of Mercy Now in their musical own musical style and in their native language to SingMercyNow@gmail.com, and we’ll post them up on the SingMercyNow Myspace page for the world to listen to. Who knows, we might lighten a few loads out there.” / Mary Gauthier / / Mercy now in different languages Encaustic A4 / tools; hotplate,hotairgun / medium; coloured waxblocks
Digital Mixed Media He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit -Titus 3:5
Praise be to the LORD, / for He has heard my cry for mercy. Psalm 28:6 “I trust in God, wherever I may be / Out in the land, out on the stormy sea / Oh come what may, from day to day / My heavenly Father watches over me” Photomanipulation created in Photoshop CS2 Stock Credits: / Background: Breedstock / Woman with lantern: deathbycanon-stock / Boat: Vegasbridestock
And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” ~Exodus 33:19 As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. ~James 5:11 Photomanipulation created in Photoshop CS2. Stock Credits: / Woman by ordinary-stock / Eagle by duskdreamscapes
The Guardian…Angel / Author Amber Elizabeth Fromm Donais / Artist: Marie Sharp / Here The Guardian…Angel Guardian Angel Author: Amber Elizabeth Fromm Donais / Word Count: 144 / previous browse writing next / Guardian Angel / From Prayer / She Surrounds Me … / Hearing My Call / She Carries Me On Wings / Of Love Protects Me, / When I Fall… / Glorious , God / His Mercy … / She Is Sent From … / Heaven Above… / A Miraculous Blessing / Sent From The Father / Our Father / With Such Love… / A Guardian , Protector / She Shields Me / In The Storm… / To Let Me , / Know My Darkness… / I Am Alone No More… / Glorious In Beauty / Peaceful Radiance / Majestically Inspiring / Healing, My Faith It / Overtakes… / Beautiful My Sentinel… / To Guide Me In My Life / Yes , God Sent My Messenger… / Her Watch …But Day And Night… / Sweet Her Inspiration… / Courage I Did Find… / Stronger Faith In Lord / My God .. And Blessed / Peace Of Mind / A Guardian… An Angel / From Prayer / She Surrounds Me … / Hearing My Call / She Carries Me On Wings / Of Love Protects Me, / Protects Me… / When I Fall…
Each day brings with it the miracle of a new / beginning. Many of the moments ahead will / be marvelously disguised as ordinary days, / but each one of us has the chance to make / something extraordinary out of them. Remember that there is an enduring worth / to every positive step you take, that the good / decisions you make will come back to bless / you, and that your angels will make sure that / any clouds really do have a silver lining. Written by: Douglas Pagels All profit goes to Feed The Children
A PRAYER FOR OZ / By: Dale Crum Oh Precious Father of mercy and grace / please place thy hand of protection upon all those in the Wonderland of Australia / For all those who are fearing and facing the horrors of these relentless fires—-send down your armies of Angelic guardians to shield and protect and even to transport to safety Oh Lord of protection. / / Please have mercy on this wonderful people and their magical land and deliver them from the fires of this merciless and all consuming dragon. Grant them the wisdom to know when to flee and where to go for safety. Comfort all those precious souls who have lost so much and so many. Hold them in your velvet arms and place your healing balm tenderly upon their burnt flesh. Please restore the parched skin, minds, and hearts beyond what doctors say—-and wash away the haunting dreams to come. Be the Father to the Fatherless Oh Lord and the comforter to those whose arms are now empty of the beloved children, and kin. May your kisses wash their tears into healing streams of life, and love, and Joy once again. Protect and shield all those brave firefighters who lay down their lives for strangers--and all those who volunteer to run into harms way for their neighbors --deliver them safely—-and bless them for their valor. May any and all who started these dragon’s blazes be found no matter where they try to run and think they can hide--may You point Your Holy Light of Wrath upon them—and may Justice be swiftly served. Amen
White Tulips As Is…Taken with a Ricoh GX-100
Digital Painting Large view recommended Dimensions: 3300×3384
A Digital Collage with a fractal background. Powergames…. Mindgames….... Dependancy ….. Controlling others to feel strong … thanks for stock goes to Morf-stock / Andromidus-Stock
Romans 5:8 (New King James Version) / 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. All around us are signs reminding us of what Jesus did for us at Easter time dying on the Cross. The remains of an old pier at Wye River on The Great Ocean Road. Pentax istDS Camera. An HDR image with three exposures bracketed and processed using Dynamic Photo HDR. Please feel free to browse through my website: Phil Thomson IPA Photography I hope you enjoy the experience.
Gypsy woman in front of Sacre Caeur, Paris / Copyright Featured in All Street Portraiture and Photography Top Ten in Eyes Looking Up / Top Ten in The Essence of Kairos / Top Ten in Sad, Sad World / Top Ten in Those Less Fortunate
On the wings of loss and pain, / The peace we often sought in vain / Will come to us with sweet surprise, / For God is merciful and wise….. / And through dark hours of tribulation / God gives us time for meditation, / And nothing can be counted loss / Which teaches us to bear our cross. / Written by Helen Steiner Rice /
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