Grace Is Poured Out On Your Lips

You are fairer than the children of men, and grace is poured out on your lips. Amen.

The beloved Saint was standing at the waters edge preparing to disperse the Holy Teachings when she was discovered by the followers of the Burning Bush. She quickly swallowed the parchment before it could be grabbed and polluted by the wicked. Her punishment was instantaneous. She was beheaded. The sword, covered in her blood was wrenched out of her attacker's hands by an invisible force and was assumed into the heavens in a flash of golden light.

Her murderers, in the confusion, didn't see her golden crown being hidden away. The crown, ringed with four chips of the sacred Blood Rubies, has recently been proven to have powers to heal even the most severe of mortal wounds.

The Saint's body was washed out to sea. I was told by an old woman on the Island of Orcas, that when the body and the head of the saint came together far out at sea, she became whole again and sprang up to do God's work against the Burning Bush!

Watercolor and gold on paper. Copyright 2010 Kelley Vandiver