Beside the Still Waters
Psalm 23:2Living room
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The water has not moved since you sat down
The wall beside the armchair used to hold nothing in particular. Now it holds a lake. You sit down, your eyes go there before they go to the phone on the arm of the chair, and by the second or third minute you have stopped listening for the stairs.
Up close the water is the flattest thing in the room. Low banks, reeds gone soft at the edges, a crook leaning where somebody set it down while the flock rests. One long stretch of blue in the middle that has not moved all evening. That is the whole of what it gives you: somewhere to look that is going nowhere, in the chair where you finally sit down.
One friend says it looks like a lake that is waiting rather than empty. Somebody else only sees the crook and asks who left it in the reeds. Your husband says it is restful and does not ask anything more. You keep the four words that brought it here to yourself, he restoreth my soul, and the room reads as a quiet living room that happens to know something.
The light left the sky and stayed in the water
The light here has already left the sky and stayed in the water. It gathers in one long stretch near the middle of the lake, and that is where my eye goes first, every time. The far bank is soft. The reeds hold still. A crook leans where someone set it down and did not come back for it yet, and I keep waiting for the hand that will.
Nothing in this one is about to happen. That is what I love about it. I hope that when the room goes quiet, this is the thing your eyes land on, and that you find your breath slowing to the water rather than the other way round.
The one who says she wants nothing
Some women buy this for themselves, after a run of hard weeks. She is the one who is steady all day and goes quiet at nine, who says she truly does not want stuff, she has everything she needs, and then keeps this one because it is not stuff, it is somewhere to put her eyes while she prays over the house.
Others arrive here looking for her. A husband who has been told nothing again this year. A friend who watched her come through a wilderness season and wants to hand her something that does not need explaining in front of other people. It opens easily and it asks no questions.
It hangs on the side wall beside the armchair, the quiet third piece of that wall, and 45x60 cm is the size that sits right there.
What you are choosing between
- 170 gsm matte paper Print only is an uncoated sheet, printed right to its edges, no frame. Matte, no shine under a lamp.
- 12 mm black wood frame Flat square profile, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, matte finish, plexiglass front, no mat, on 170 gsm coated silk paper.
- Three sizes 30x40 cm / 12x16 in, 45x60 cm / 18x24 in, 60x80 cm / 24x32 in. The middle one suits a side wall beside a chair.
What people ask before it goes on the wall
1.What bible verse is good for a bedroom wall?
2.What scripture helps when anxiety hits at night?
3.What does he maketh me to lie down in green pastures mean?
4.What size print suits the wall beside an armchair or a bed?
5.What do you write in a card with a scripture print gift?
Nine at night, and the wall is ready before you are
Choose framed or print only, in one of three sizes, and let the still water take the wall beside the chair.
