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If you want to give your heart a good exercising, the art of Cara Leslie Berton will help you with that. In our highly accomplishment-focused culture, the surface of life may be all we get to be presented with, while our hearts have to live under the radar. So we don't get to know our hearts in their deeper, more longing capacities, and where that longing might lead us-into the darkness, but also through the darkness into light; into our human loneliness, but also through our loneliness into love and a larger Belonging. The 98 original images in this book open us into that fertile territory of the heart. Her subjects include love and intimacy, suffering and redemption, family, longing and belonging (both human and religious), nostalgia, nature, the angelic world, aging, beauty, and more. And because she communicates all this through the wordless medium of her artwork, we get to encounter certain feeling places in our own hearts that we might not otherwise recognize. When we are conditioned to the glossy surface of ourselves, how much of us beneath the surface goes hungry? Someone has to paint the subtler realities of feeling, in its many dimensions-as Van Gogh did, as Rembrandt did-for us to know the fullness of ourselves and who we might become. Cara Berton's drawings and paintings give us this. As you go through this book, may you find in these graphic expressions what your own heart, soul, and spirit need for your own healing journey.

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"Cara Berton ... Her Heart and Art ""Cara has shared her multi-media creations since the mid 1970s. Her craft is her ability to reveal her deepest thoughts...her powerful reactions to experiences. Her subjects span the spectrum of still life, nature, the sky and the other-worldly. However, her greatest focus has been on the details of the people. ""Cara uses black and white to represent despair and her struggle against the evils and obstacles of everyday life; and she uses dramatic colors to express her enthrallment with the joy of persons, real and represented in religious contexts. And interspersed with all the images is the occasional expression of Cara's inner life through poetic verses which reveal her superb command of the English language. ""Her prolific interpretation of the world of real people and that of her imagination shines through the laser-like images she sends me regularly via email! What a joy it's been to be on the receiving end of Cara's creativity! -Jerry Zacks, MD A Blessing for Us Now and for Generations to Come ""Cara is so talented, and truly loves to express herself in poetry and art, as these are precious gifts The Lord has truly given her to share with us. I pray that you, too, are truly blessed by her work and Masterpieces, because she has truly become one of The Masters' Masterpieces. ""Art by Cara is a blessing for us now and for generations to come as we share with our loved ones the gift God blessed her with, so share Cara's work with your loved ones to double the blessing. I pray you too are as blessed as I am in viewing this marvelous work of art."" -Linda Floyd, Advanced Certified Christian Counselor and Life Coach"

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Cara Leslie Berton is an artist based in New York who sees the act of creating as an inheritance from God.

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