Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven) 

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
Beware of paying attention
or going back to what you once were,
when God wants you to be something
that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers

You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown

Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler

Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

Hope means hoping
when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
Faith means believing the incredible,
or it has no virtue at all.

~ G.K. Chesterton
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud

My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln
Do not have your concert first, and then
tune your instrument afterwards.
Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown
This is a book about the Red Maple Tree in the front yard of the home where I grew up. It was my first creative effort after my move back to the US from Mexico City in 1999. It is a story about change, and ultimately about hope. Like all my images, they are more than illustrations. In this case, they are about color and light. This particular book was assembled while I was blind in one eye, and needed to "make a book" to cheer myself on and feel like a creative person again. Ultimately the story of the tree and the story of Lisa are intertwined. It is a personal book to encourage anyone facing a winter season in their heart.

The first printing was 50 copies sent out as a Christmas gift to people who had supported, encouraged and prayed for me during my long illness.

To read the text of this book, go to: MISC STORIES: RED MAPLE TREE

To read my story of how I did not ultimately go blind, go to: LISA's STORY
The Red Maple Tree

© 1999 Lisa Bowes LaLonde

Printed by Lisa LaLonde

All hand-assembled.

First edition: 50

Second edition: 50

Price: $20 (includes shipping)*









*Orders from outside US, please Contact Lisa

Please allow 10-14 days for delivery