DIANE O'CONNOR

He Gave Me Roses - 36" x 36" acrylic on canvas, completed in a class with Bonnie Dhein at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center What a great teacher and beautiful place to learn! And what a lovely group of artists to be with! Once it was home, I tweaked it but softening some colors and adding more mark-making with mixed media. ! This was the completed painting, which I entered in the January Winder Garden Exhibit at Riverside Gallerry in Stevens Point. It won Best of Show!

In the spring of 2024, I took a class called, “Loose Tulips” with Ali Kay. (alikaystudio.com)

It's snowing this morning—large flakes floating down lazily from the sky. I sat and watched for awhile, mesmerized by the peacefulness of...

A FOCUS FOR 2022 As 2021 was coming to a close, I was asking the Lord to show me what I should focus on as we entered 2022. I kept...

SATAN ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY THREE ESSENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS In Part 1 I reminded us that we have an enemy that works to divide and conquer. Right now before our eyes, people are being divided and turned against each other—man vs woman, black vs white, husband vs wife, republican vs democrat, state vs federal, masked vs unmasked, vaxxed vs unvaxxed . . . and on and on and on. We are becominge fragmented and distrustful; cautious to share our thoughts out loud for fear of what oth

RECOGNIZE THE ENEMY SO YOU CAN DEFEAT HIM Right now it seems that there are conflicts everywhere we turn. We have an enemy that works to divide and conquer. Before our eyes people are being divided and turned against each other—man vs woman, black vs white, husband vs wife, republican vs democrat, state vs federal, vaxxed vs unvaxxed . . . and on and on and on. We are becoming fragmented and distrustful; cautious to share our thoughts out loud for fear of what others might th

A Story of Transformation "If I were a house I’d be a little yellow house, with gables, a white spindled porch, cascading flower boxes,...

You influence others. You influence at home, and in your circle of contacts—at work or school, formally or informally. At the most basic...

It is PRAYER that shifts atmospheres and changes culture! And it happens from the inside-out, one heart at a time. Everything around us...

After I became a Christ-follower, I desperately wanted to clarify my calling and serve the Lord with everything I had. I began thinking...

INSIDE OUT ART PRINT by Kerri Rosenthal "Inside-out" is a theme in my life. Over the years, God has woven inside-out thinking into the...

Handling Conflict - A Key to Healthy Relationships I asked myself,"Who should I be leading?," and then I boxed in five leadership domains...