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Fiona Miller is a watercolor artist. Her vibrant and lively style stems from Fiona’s curiosity about the world: she has traveled extensively in the UK, US, Europe & Asia and she loves to seek out new vistas that celebrate both the extraordinary and everyday aspects of life. Her watercolors share a common thread: the humanity within us expressed through the space around us.

In this episode, Fiona discusses how being creative gives her the freedom to reflect Him through her own creations. This gives her the ability to be closer to Him, to be more like Him, but also to be more human. To her, art has been a release of emotions as well as an act of worship. If she is being honest, she struggles with separating her identity from her talent but also finds that it gives her the freedom to truly explore who God created her to be.

Psalm 8:3-5 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

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Waiting on God’s timing is so hard! Sometimes you’re waiting to fulfill a call that you know God has for you, other times you’re waiting for an answer that you’ve been praying about. But God’s timing is usually not our timing. He uses this waiting time to train, teach, and prepare us for the very thing we are waiting for.

• David of the Old Testament was no stranger to this waiting: he was anointed to be the future king of Israel but had to wait 15 years to get there
• In the meantime, he worked as a shepherd in his father’s shepherd’s field and God prepared him for his first step toward the kingdom: defeating Goliath
  • Go to 1 Samuel 17 to read the whole story.
• Sometimes we’re waiting because we just aren’t ready yet. Other times we’re waiting even though we are fully ready because it’s just not the right time.
• The most important thing to remember is: God is faithful and He knows what He is doing.

We need to be diligent during these periods in the shepherd’s field. We need to work on growing our relationship with God and looking for those opportunities to get stronger faith. That is the purpose of waiting, and if we do it well, God will make us so much more equipped through it.