A watch... money... a vacation... a painting... He loved art.
Why don't we have someone do a portrait of him, with the church in the background?They turned to Alette.
“Will you do it?” “Of course,” she said happily. Walter Manning was one of the senior members of the church,
and one of its biggest contributors. He was a very successful businessman, but he seemed to resent everyone else's success.
He said, “My daughter is a fine painter. Perhaps she should do it.”
Someone suggested, “Why not have them both do it, and we'll vote on which one to give Pastor Frank?”
Alette went to work. The painting took her five days, and it was a masterpiece,
glowing with the compassion and goodness of her subject. The following Sunday, the group met to look at the paintings.
There were exclamations of appreciation over Alette's painting. “It's so real, he could almost walk off the canvas....”
“Oh, he's going to love that....” “That should be in a museum, Alette....” Walter Manning unwrapped the canvas painted by his daughter.
It was a competent painting, but it lacked the fire of Alette's portrait.
“That's very nice,” one of the members of the congregation said tactfully, “but I think Alette's is—”
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