line up with visas and travel times.
And the third was a text from a girl
she remembered from college. “Her
name was Melissa Williams. She
texted me out of the blue and said,
‘I’m thinking and praying about
going to Mozambique this summer.
I know you just went to that
ministry. Can you tell me about
it?’ The dates she planned on going
were the same dates as mine for
Scotland, so I let that door shut
and booked a flight to Mozambique
with Melissa.”
In a second mural for Masana,
Meredith again painted a scene
from the story of the prodigal son.
“In the initial painting, the son
was still a long way off. He was
still in a broken place with the
Father in the distance at the house
starting to stand up. It was about
the sons going home and being
restored in their homes to their
fathers because they were never
too far gone to go home. But on
the flight over, God put it on my
heart that this wasn’t a story about
earthly sons and earthly fathers.
He wanted to say something about
sons coming home to Him and
being welcomed home. This mural
was to be about their relationship
with God himself.”
The new mural depicted a
scene after the big party for the
returned son with the Father’s
arms around him. “I used Sarah’s
husband for the father and one of
the young boys I loved there as the
prodigal son.”
Meredith spent two more
months in Mozambique, and in
addition to the new mural, she
was able to do some work for the
ministry’s gym.
Altama Gallery
Meredith returned to the
home of her childhood to do a
show called “The Broken Series”
at the Altama Gallery in January
Meredith’s paintings include a
collection called “The Broken Series”
recently featured at the Altama
Gallery in Vidalia. This collection
conveys the idea that our beauty
lies in our imperfections.
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