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Lonely? Exhausted? Overwhelmed? Whether we’re young, old, or in between, these feelings can flood our hearts. As we face our limitations, our most urgent need is to know God better and experience His love, power, and sufficiency.
Beloved author Ruth Myers has chosen the path protected by the deep comfort of Christ, and she is a willing guide for anyone ready to approach aging in a different way. This thirty-one-day devotional helps you choose joy now and prepare for a satisfying future. Draw close to Him and embrace the possibilities.
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This thirty-one-day devotional will help you draw close to God and experience His love, power, and sufficiency.
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Are you feeling lonely? Tired? Overwhelmed?
Whether we’re young, old, or in between, these feelings can flood our hearts at almost any time. Faced with our limitations, our most urgent need is to know God better.
Beloved author Ruth Myers is a willing guide for women who are ready to approach aging in a different way. This 31-day devotional helps you choose joy now and prepare for a satisfying future.
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Explore how the arts and faith live together and how you can bring healing to a hurting world through your own creation.
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A collection of essays, thoughts, and prayers from award-winning artist Makoto Fujimura, Refractions brings people of all backgrounds together in conversation and meditation on culture, art, and humanity.
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“Art addresses us in the fullness of our being. . . . There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories or songs or images. Art awakens, enlarges, refines, and restores our humanity.”—Dana Gioia, National Education Association chairman
About the Author
Makoto Fujimura was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. Educated bicultural between the United States and Japan, Fujimura graduated from Bucknell University in 1983 and received an M.F.A. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as a National Scholar in Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) in 1989. His thesis painting was purchased by the university and he was invited to study in the Post–M.F.A. lineage program, a first for an outsider to this prestigious traditional program. During his years in the program, he experienced “a transfer of allegiance from art to Christ.” His book River Grace (www.rivergrace.com) traces his journey of mastering Nihonga technique, using carefully stone-ground minerals including azurite, malachite, and cinnabar, along with his deep wrestling with art and faith issues.
In 1992 he became the youngest artist ever to have had a piece acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. Public collections include The Saint Louis Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, and the Time Warner / AOL / CNN building in Hong Kong. His paintings are represented by Dillon Gallery in New York and in Tokyo (www.dillongallery.com).
Fujimura was appointed to the National Council on the Arts, a six-year presidential appointment, in 2003. WORLD magazine honored him as its Daniel of the Year in 2005.
In 1990 Fujimura founded The International Arts Movement (www.iamny.org), an arts advocacy organization that wrestles with the deep questions of art, faith, and humanity. Fujimura has served as an elder at Redeemer Presbyterian Church as well as a founding elder at The Village Church, both Presbyterian Church in America congregations in New York City. His writings on art and faith issues have appeared in Image Journal, Books and Culture, American Arts Quarterly, and WORLD magazine.