Donna, I am particularly fond of "water" paintings, whether ocean, lakes, waterfalls, etc., so this painting pushes all my buttons!
I also like your commentary. I've been meditating on this painting for a few days now, and what I see in it is also "conflict". The boulders can look at the coming waves with two different attitudes. 1] If the boulders are rooted in this world, they will receive the daily pounding with comments like, "It's always something" or "If it's not one thing, it's another". 2] If the boulders are rooted in Christ, they will have the attitude of the apostle Paul, "For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour)is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excesively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendant glory and blessedness never to cease!] (II Corinthians 4:17)
Every day we have to choose how we will view this eternal conflict. There will be the pounding of waves. It is inescapable. But we can let the pounding be for glory, allowing it to change us into the likeness of our Lord Jesus.
I also like your commentary. I've been meditating on this painting for a few days now, and what I see in it is also "conflict". The boulders can look at the coming waves with two different attitudes. 1] If the boulders are rooted in this world, they will receive the daily pounding with comments like, "It's always something" or "If it's not one thing, it's another". 2] If the boulders are rooted in Christ, they will have the attitude of the apostle Paul, "For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour)is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excesively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendant glory and blessedness never to cease!] (II Corinthians 4:17)
Every day we have to choose how we will view this eternal conflict. There will be the pounding of waves. It is inescapable. But we can let the pounding be for glory, allowing it to change us into the likeness of our Lord Jesus.