Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. #Proverbs 19:21 | NIV . But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 | NIV . So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 | NIV . For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 2 Corinthians 10:3 | NIV . Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’? Isaiah 45:9 | #NIV . “The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?” Proverbs 20:24 New Living Translation #NLT . #Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own #understanding ._ #KJV . #sacrifice #obstacles #takingtheroadlesstraveled > that’s what #art is for me. . “When people ask me how did I learn to the make the Roses it’s a page or two story that finishes with being in the right place at the right time and asking the right person, something God had to have lined up. When people ask what brought me to the area I’m in? That’s a 100 page story simplified and I have trouble explaining things I don’t understand. When people ask me why I’m doing what I’m doing it’s a question I ask myself but if I think hard enough God has pulled the cords a lot and why would God not be pulling the cords now? The only choice I have is to be glad or mad about what’s going on and to keep making top shelf roses through it all.”- #Rosemanj . . . . . . . . #thebeach #artwork #rose #palmrose #palmettorose #sweetgrassrose #knowledge #wisdom #faith #blessed #fineart #modernart #contemporaryart #exclusive #everlastingroses #rosesthatlastforever #artworld #handmaderoses #tooexclusivefortv