JULY '24
"But when you ask, you must believe & not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown & tossed by the wind." - James 1:6 For my Gran & Paw Paw, The ones who demonstrate love so well & encouraged my love of all things ocean. This painting might be my favorite one in this year's calendar. I'm a sucker for all things ocean. When I was a child, these precious grandparents lived on the Marshall Islands. I wanted to be like them when I grew up, so around age three I made up my mind that I was going to be an ocean scientist. I stuck to that throughout high school until God let me know He had something else in mind. Even in college I waffled back and forth between my love for water with the calling to minister to children. I ended up with a teaching degree, but even today I still say still say that my first love was always the ocean. Our verse this month comes from the letter of James in the New Testament. It is packed ful