Auction to Support Ukraine

Thank you to those of you who bid in this online auction to support displaced families in Ukraine!

Prayers for Ukraine
● Sold (10 x 8 inches, oil on panel)

I auctioned my original framed Sunflower painting, Prayers for Ukraine, oil, 8 x 10 inches, on Facebook and Instagram on 3/19 to 3/20. 100% of the proceeds are going to Catholic Relief Service to support Ukraine and displaced families. (How it worked: Starting bid: $350, included frame and shipping. Bidding was placed in the comments section of the post for the auction on Instagram, bidding was with $25 increments.) I’ve been so inspired seeing many other artists offering their talents to support the people of Ukraine! Thank you so much for your participation!

This was my Mom’s favorite prayer and it is appropriate during this time of unrest.

Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.