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Santa Fe Travel Diary O'Keeffe and Abiquiu
1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving;
Georgia O’Keeffe, a world-renowned artist, lived for 98 years. She spent most of her life in Abiquiu, New Mexico. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe is the only museum in America entirely dedicated to a woman artist.
Abiquiu is 42 miles north of Santa Fe. O’Keeffe loved the multihued, radiant colors of the desert. Her home is near a good water source but is in the middle of a magnificent, desert landscape.
O’Keeffe was unique in the art world. She painted what she saw in her mind’s eye. Her paintings mixed the visible with the invisible. She never asked folks if they liked her work, she painted what she liked. The spiritual implications are a call to be more like Jesus and less-like the world. We are a part of the family of God but we are also unique individuals. If I live 98 years, I pray that it will be said of me that he lived his life caring for people but following the dictates of Jesus. The visible controlled by the invisible.
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