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Elsie Anna Wood Inspires

2/2/2018

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   Elsie Anna Wood was an amazing artist who specialized in painting Bible scenes. In order to make her paintings authentic, she traveled to the Holy Land to study how people dressed, the colors of the landscape, and how light behaved there.
     Her paintings of Jesus inspired the depiction of Jesus in my book The Temple Curtain. Wood painted how you would imagine that a person in the Middle East would look after being outdoors most of the time (without any sunscreen!).Jesus wears a saffron robe because that was the color that teachers wore. I'm afraid the artist who did my book illustrations could not quite wrap his mind around making Jesus with such dark skin as shown in Wood's painting below.
     I love how Jesus is smiling. One of the activities on my website for Chapter One is for students to pick their favorite artist who painted Jesus, and there are many of them to research on the internet. I choose Wood. 
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Students Feel the Impact of the Tearing of the Temple Curtain

6/15/2017

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     As an author, I was thrilled to speak with Principal Elaine Obbink and hear how she and her teachers used The Temple Curtain for an all day school event on Good Friday at Monroe Christian School in Washington (state).
     These creative educators read the book to their classes prior to Good Friday. On Good Friday, the classes (K-8) rotated to nine classrooms for activities related to my book. Each child made a book in the shape of a boat and added pictures as they progressed through the rooms.
     The day culminated with chapel. They entered the chapel from darkness through a curtain, and saw a banner made by the 8th graders. This symbolized the tearing of the temple curtain when Jesus died. Students, teachers, and parents got teary eyed with the impact of the drama.  
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The Bible Event That Inspired Me to Write The Temple Curtain

3/10/2017

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At the exact moment at which Jesus died on the cross, the curtain in the Jerusalem temple which separated The Holy Place (where the priest burned incense) from The Holy of Holies was torn from top to bottom. The Temple Curtain, helps the reader understand the significance of this for all of us, both then and now. This is why The Temple Curtain is so appropriate for Lent. 
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