August 16, 2003 journal, all day with the book at Folkfest, churches not being forthright with its members. The book cost $25 from <visionaryartpublishing.com> I stayed in motel 6 for $30 at the end of the street and slept well with my car 3 ft. from the door. There was some rough activity when I drove up but they had a policeman standing guard. That front-age roads closed going into Jimmy Carter Blvd., so you must detour through the shopping mall to crossover to the Cracker Barrel Restaurant. It is all now a commercial graveyard. What is folk art? I am not sure and I no longer speculate. Some are beginning to upgrade now to expensive art. James Mann promises to change my category to fine art. I pray that people will understand my journals and that they will read them. This is the message that is on my heart and life to write as I paint. I saw a new shelter gallery from Charlotte, North Carolina, with many artists from the streets painting and it is a blessing to me to see such enthusiasm from those that have nothing but a borrowed brush and canvas to make art. My heart is with the homeless people and the street ministry is surely where it is that God wants us to be. The church at large has rewritten history and interpreted prophecy more to suit themselves rather than to receive the true mind of the Lord God to be a part of His marvelous plan to bless mankind and restore us to the level that Adam and Eve had in the Garden of Eden before they spoiled it with sin. The substitute church and the substitute Christ has been out there for a long time. Few paint the real gospel. Most of folk art is idolatry and most church folks eat it up. Let us cry from the highest mountain, His Word to proclaim. I will paint the walls and ceilings and every moving thing to proclaim His name. Let us think the picture of divine grace and love. Let us speak the truth through the brush and on canvas to save the world. Let all Christian junkies see the true light and come forth out of their complacency to become meaningful for the kingdom of Almighty God. May our hearts be attuned to God's heavenly message. May we let the Holy Spirit inspire our lives and lead us near to the Lord and His holy will for us. Stand still and see the glory of God. Have faith in life and wear a smile. I brought on to the show one of the paintings I did of 'unconditional love' that we are required as Christians to have for each other. Let us be void of ego and full of love for the Lord and for all people we see and hear. I ask someone if they were bored with all of the time waiting as the show went on, the reply was no, I just watch the people. It is entertaining to just watch them go by. May God have mercy on a misguided and dissatisfied multi generation being forced fed a sugar diet with so many artificial ingredients added to our processed snack food supply. I will write tomorrow on the specific ingredients of Campbell's soup with mono sodium glutamate that is said to destroy the myelin sheath off the nerve endings. Let us beware. Lookup for your redemption draws nigh. Lookup to that great resource in the sky. Rejoice in the Lord God creator of all. Have you made that connection with understanding to God and Christ the Lord with his mission on earth? Salvation is by faith from a repentant heart.

Job 42-1 "Then Job answered the Lord and said, I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things to wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee". May the Lord God of all the universe bless us and enrich our daily lives.

Many people exist in misery even though they are very successful. Only a surrendered life to Christ will generate the joy and peace the heart craves. Let us start anew with God first.