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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: Accent (02/21/13)
The woman gasped when she saw it. “This was exactly what I have been searching for. It’s perfect!” She wondered how she had missed this gallery which possessed her perfect painting. “This ends my three year quest.”

The brilliant colors combined with soft illusive light and shadows, the subtle texture and complex subject… it was all here before her astonished eyes. “This was painted for me.” She purchased it without hesitation and went directly home.

She wasted no time in hanging her prized possession on the wall opposite the entryway. It became the centerpiece of her home and each day, looking first upon this sublime painting would set her mind and heart in the right direction.

Gradually though, the painting devolved in her experience from the focal point of her of home to an artistic accent embellishing its surroundings, to just another feature of her comfortable house. In fact, after a few months she barely noticed the painting unless a visitor, on seeing it for the first time, gasped with delight and inquired about its origin and meaning. On those occasions she would eye the painting curiously, trying to recapture that first bliss that it had stirred in her soul. Sadly, she could not.

What in life is an all-consuming passion, a lens through which all else is viewed? What picture casts its aura to color all else in its purview? And what becomes of it, if it no longer is the centerpiece, but rather just an accent, an illuminating feature but not the thing itself?

“I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! But you are lukewarm… .”* That is what becomes of a mere accent.

*Revelation 3:15-16 ESV
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Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
03/01/13
You did a great job with this allegory. I think you were able to set the scene just right. The Bible verse accented the story but would never become just an accent. This is a clever, well-written work of art.
C D Swanson 
03/02/13
This was simply written, yet brilliant at the same time! Great job. Thanks.

God bless
Judith Gayle Smith-Owens Vitouswykegardinerclark
03/06/13
Wow. The ending caught me by surprise. How true that we are so capable of great passion in the "honeymoon" moments, and then forget to Whom we are married and why.

Loving you in through and because of Jesus, the Christ . . .

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Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
03/07/13
Congratulations on ranking 24 overall!