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Subject: Psalm 21: Failure and Success
Posted by: Daniel L. Dew

As I sat in the back of the chapel, prior to our Christmas Eve service, I had the pleasure to listen to the beautiful vocalist that would sing that night (Abby Crane, she is awesome!). She was practicing and warming up her vocal chords with, uh, unusual sounds that singers make before singing. And I thought of Psalm 21: "The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!" Which of course led me to start sketching out my idea for the image to use. After a few trials and errors, this is the final image: Now I was off to the races! Next was to use the really cool graphics I had designed for the decorative initial and illumination. But I just wasn't "feeling" it. You can be the judge this time! I am posting my FAIL, and then what I consider, my SUCCESS (well God's actually, it is all His). Here is the first attempt at the decorative initial: and the first illumination attempt: [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here]

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