Photo Cut Out Board

Acrylic on cardboard.
My sister-in-law is a leader for the Activity Day Girls (ages 8-11) in her ward and she asked me to do this photo cut out board for their Daddy Daughter Dinner Date activity.  It was a western theme.  She said everyone had a wonderful time and had a blast taking pictures with the board.  I'm so glad I could do something fun for them!

"Consider the Lilies"

60x38 1/2 Acrylic on canvas
This was inspired not only by this passage of scripture but also by the beautiful song based on this passage.  Hear the Mormon Tabernacle Chior sing this hymn                                            Matthew 6:26-31
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

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"If Only"

36x48 Acrylic and Marker on Canvas Board
If Only...
This is the idea of Hell that we would meet our glorified, perfected, happy self. Then we get to live for eternity knowing that we could have been that person IF ONLY we had worked a little bit harder and put forth a little more effort.

"Spiritual Privileges"

18x24 Acrylic and Water Color Pencil on Canvas

From Sheri Dew's book, "God Wants A Powerful People" p. 56 "The question , then, is this How much power do we want to have, and what are we willing to do to obtain it? Heber C. Kimball said that 'the greatest torment [the Prophet Joseph] had... was because this people would not live up to their [spiritual] privileges. ...He said sometimes that he felt pressed upon as though he were pent up in an acorn shell, and all because the people did not and would not prepare themselves to recieve the rich treasures of wisdom an knowledge that he had to impart. He could have revealed a great many things to us if we had been ready.' " (Journal of Discourses 10:167)

What would happen in our lives if we lived up to our spiritual privileges and burst open the acorn shell, so to speak? What could the Prophet teach us if we would make ourselves ready? I want those blessings!