Nauvoo Changing Seasons Select an Image Size:30 X 20 I wanted to show ALL

I wanted to show ALL creation - the sky

The weather had been too good

I’ll then be not afraid

broad shoulders and chest

When I started this painting

Nauvoo Changing Seasons Select an Image Size:30 X 20 I wanted to show ALLTradition places the wise men at the stable on that first Christmas night, yet the scriptures record: When [the wise men] were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother. (Matthew 2: 11). Why did the wise men come to a toddler and not an infant? To understand this timing we must understand the circumstance of Mary and Joseph. In the Law of Moses, the poorest families could sacrifice a turtledove in place of a lamb (Lev. 12: 9).