Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American Modernist. After several visits to New Mexico, she moved to Abiquiu from New York in 1949. In this place she captured enchantment, schooling us in the gifts of looking closely when there is less to see. With a single flower or mountain outline or view from an airplane window, she taught us how to see so much. She honored each subject in her personal, inventive way, making it first hers and then ours.

In Above the Clouds, Georgia O’Keeffe shows us that above the clouds, above all we know, see and hear, there are beautiful truths to find and imagine. For me, at this writing, some of these are:

We can trust in the infinite reach of God’s love and beauty.
We can believe in the abundance of all good things and share without hesitation in God’s name.
We are together in this world to know love upon love, grace upon grace.

Thanks be to God.

In gratitude, faith and hope,

Sandy Prouty
Minister of Children and Families
Montview Church