Sandi Hester

When I looked up ‘roof’ in my bible concordance for this post I got a little tickled.  There were 2 scriptures listed – both quite different…

Jesus said, “What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the ROOFS.”  Matthew 10:27

Women, can you think of what the other verse about the roof is???…  Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 21:9  YIKES!

The reason for the roof scriptures are because I painted several rooftop paintings on our trip since our room was up high and it looked down on the valley.  Here’s one I painted that turned out fun.  I tried to capture the smoke coming out of the chimneys early in the morning.

The day is Yours, and Yours also the night; You established the sun and moon.  It was You who set all the boundaries of the earth; You made both summer and WINTER.  Psalm 74:16-17

Grady is going to shout out a big a-men about God making winter – I can hear him now :).  Here’s another sketch from our trip titled ‘snow shadows’, because I loved the shadows as much or more than the actual trees.  I’ll be posting more paintings from the trip throughout the week.

In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.  Psalm 95:4

Grady and I just got back from Colorado.  We had a GREAT trip!  It was very relaxing – the town was dead – that’s how we like it.  Some nights at dinner, we were the only ones in the restaurant!  We enjoyed the river, mountains, good food, and each other.  We really enjoy just hanging out together.  Grady spoiled me rotten – we stayed in a great hotel, he had 33 (that’s how old I’ll be on Oct. 29th) roses in the room when we got there, and a birthday gift EVERY NIGHT – can you believe that!!!  I told him that we should start doing this every year :).  We had an amazing view from our hotel room and I painted from our window every day.  Below are some of those quick sketchbook type paintings I did while there – none are really any good but they sure were fun to paint.  We were surrounded by mountains.  There is a song we sing at church (I can’t remember the name of it) that has a phrase I love and sing often – it says, “My Savior, He can move the mountains, My God is mighty to save…”  I LOVE the song and sang it (to myself) all week.  My Savior not only created the mountains, but He can move them if He wills – He is mighty – that’s for sure!

Here are some other pictures from our trip…

1.  View from our room

2.  33 roses

3.  We went up to the top of the mountain the first full day and had lunch and I painted – Grady took this shot of me painting – notice the snow in the picture – it snowed the first night we were there!

4.  The last day we hiked down the river and Grady walked around while I painted – he took this picture of me painting too…

5.  Grady and I taking a picture of ourselves.

6.  This is the creek that was right by our hotel – that’s me on the bridge.