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9/28/2017

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SMALL BEGINNINGS
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Strong and Mighty Wings and My Presence is Here
​by Sara Thurman - Wimberley, Texas
These angels hover high in my living room.
​Do not despise these small beginnings,
for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin,
to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.

Zechariah 4:10

This verse launched an artist.
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Recently I had the honor to co-teach a breakout session with my artist friend,
Sara Thurman,
at the inaugural We Believe Women’s Conference in Wimberley, Texas.
We are creatives who have been called to pursue our passions
(writing for me, painting for her) through avenues that require giant steps of faith and more learning than these two fifty-something 
former teachers ever imagined.
 
Sara’s story began with a desire to produce income that she could send to missionaries, including her two sons and their wives,
in order to bring heaven to the ends of the earth. 
 
With no formal training, no artist community support, and only the prompting of the Holy Spirit, Sara completed her first painting with worship music and a small handful of women in October 2014.
 
“The process of layering paint on roofing felt was healing,
​and my identity of being ‘created to create’ became a reality.”
Sara Thurman

 
In November 2016, she sold her first angel created primarily with a palette knife and textured layers of acrylic paint. Angels are her primary subject, but she also paints churches and botanicals.
​Many of her paintings are also available as
​notecards, prints, and canvas reproductions.
​In less than a year, Sara has sold over 200 paintings.


Learn more about Sara and shop her inventory at
https://www.actsoneeightblessings.com/
Acts 1:8 Blessings
I am a small beginning.
I don't have a dream team of professionals bossing me around
or thousands of people with cash in their pockets
and fingers poised to blast a social media blitz to promote my books.
But I have encouraging friends, devoted family, steadfast faith,
and a stubborn will to learn and stretch and leap out of my comfort zone.
I am a small beginning. The story has just begun. 

What about you?


Comfort & Joy
Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!
Hebrews 13:12 NLT
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Discover how party planner Angeline, angel wings, and a
tiny, dynamic Mayan matriarch named Caladium are connected
in my novel All In For Life.
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4 Comments
MO link
9/29/2017 09:48:03 pm

Love love love this! Go Sara! Go Peggy! 😂

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Brooke
9/30/2017 10:04:47 pm

Everything she touches blossoms. Sara has been a huge encouragement to me and I thank God for her friendship. May God continue to use her to reach the Nations.

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Peggy Tidwell link
10/2/2017 08:47:08 am

Brooke! You won the drawing, but I don't know who you are. Maybe I do. Email me so I know if you are a local Brooke or if I need to mail your gifts. Congratulations!

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Seth Wade link
10/13/2022 03:34:45 pm

State agency two oil. Deal head much mother. Long save environmental very lawyer.

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