Kate Word Blogs

I want to encourage you today. My early Christian life was not a Spirit-led, Spirit filled life...but God scooped me up from the "prison" I found myself in and I, too, sense a calling to the impossible. One thing my husband has helped me to understa... 

As artists, we put our work out there. It's nice when people actually LIKE it. Like it enough to buy it...right? Knowingly or not, each collector is purchasing a small piece of ...me. My vision, my eyes, my heart, my skills with whatever my camera ca... 

Here's another beauty from my nostalgia series of vignettes staged on my kitchen counter. I spent many Sunday afternoons capturing images of family memorabilia. I frequently added roses from my neighbor's yard to spruce up these still-life compositio... 

Recently, I rediscovered some images on my external hard drive. I had previously published them as nostalgic greeting cards but it was so long ago that I had forgotten about them. These vignettes were small, still-life compositions that I staged ... 

There was a time in my life when I was critical of and offended by my local art community, and I distanced myself from it. Years passed and the Lord, through my husband, said, "How can you speak Life to a 'culture' you hate? or condemn?" Wit... 

Maybe you need some encouragement today. Maybe you are weary. Don't give up. Press on. God began a good work in you. He WILL carry it to completion. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. (Please click the video link in the "s... 

This is my artist statement from my current show, "Dreams Never Die." All children dream about who they want to be when they grow up. I was no different. As is common in life, “dream killers” came along to crush my reality. One day when I was aske... 

If you feel like the last leaf on your branch, then “Branch out from where you are.” This became my focus after a real, orphaned life experience. After reading Zechariah 6:12, “Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where H...