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Painting the landscape is not only inspirational for me, it is instructive.

I see in its rhythms, patterns, and happenings a model for my own life.

I believe that by closely observing nature, we can see God's plan for our very existence illustrated in natural events.

Take this scene, for example, of water rushing thirteen miles down Willow Creek from Yosemite National Park, toward its destination in Bass Lake. The way is not clear, occluded and obstructed by boulders, fallen trees, twists and turns.

In places the water blasts on, in others it moves more slowly, and in some events, that liquid speed crashes against those objects in its path.

It may cause one tp think about how water finds its way downhill: it doesn't resist an obstacle or challenge, it simply finds a new path.