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Kimberly Kelly

About the Artist • About the Piece

My name is Kim. My husband, Peter, and I have been at Park for 11 years. I’m a mom to the two coolest people I know, a therapist, and an amateur art maker. Art allows me to let go of perfectionism and enjoy the process.

My kids’ Bible (CSB) has this psalm titled “portrait of a sinner.” As I was meditating on this passage, I couldn’t get the idea of this as a self-portrait of sorts out of my head. I think it’s too easy to read this psalm and want to minimize its truth. I’m no fool! I’m not like the person described here…except too often I am. This psalm has encouraged me to confront the foolishness in my life and heart—the ways I proclaim “of course there’s a God” with my words but don’t live like I believe that to be true. With that idea in mind, I intentionally played with proportions to highlight the foolishness and absurdity of where our lives are often oriented when the glory of God is so tangibly on display around us. My hope is that this Psalm would encourage us to examine our own foolishness and return to the God of grace who promises to be our refuge.

Learn more about Christ in the Psalms weekly artwork and see previous pieces here.

Kara Schorstein

About the Artist • About the Piece

I’m a semi-retired visual artist but have also dabbled in songwriting since I was a teen. My dad was a pastor most of my childhood which was spent in Abilene, Texas. We visited Colorado on a vacation in 1969, and I fell in love with the Rocky Mountains. I escaped Texas when I was 45!

I loved my parents (who have passed), but they were extremely rigid in their expectations of me and my four siblings when we were young. Because of this, I have struggled my whole life to think of God as a loving Father. My husband—the best man I’ve ever known—was the worship pastor at a church in Estes Park. He passed away in our fifth year there. “To Believe” was written/begun there and finished recently when I received the invitation from Seth to participate in the art and writing for this summer’s Psalms series. I’m still working to understand and embrace the impact of God being my father, but He has brought me to a point in my walk with Him where I firmly believe in His love, affection, and grace for me.

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Allee Nesbitt

About the Artist • About the Piece

I’m Allee. I do creative direction, design, and branding for an urban planning company based out of San Francisco, CA. I’ve been attending Park Church since 2016. Park is where I met my husband, Cody, and now we have two little guys who make life very fun (2.5 years and 3 months). Life these days is mostly a mix of toddler negotiations, baby snuggles, and reheated coffee.

This design is inspired by Psalm 12, a lament for a world overflowing with noise, division, performance, and fractured truth. When I read this psalm, it felt deeply connected to the world we live in today. It can feel easy to get swept into outrage, fear, and the pressure to choose sides rather than remain grounded in the steady truth of who God is. I often find myself caught between seeking approval from others and resting in the truth of who God says I am. In Psalm 12, God’s words are described as “pure words, like silver refined seven times” — untouched by sin, steady in love, and completely trustworthy.

The hands throughout the piece represent desperation, prayer, surrender, and the longing to reach toward God in the midst of confusion. The snake, scale, eye, and hourglass symbolize deception, imbalance, spiritual exhaustion, and the slow erosion of trust that can happen when we are shaped more by the world’s division than by Christ’s love and truth. In contrast, the silver, sun, and window reflect refinement, guidance, hope, and the steadiness of God’s presence. Together, these symbols point back to the heart of Psalm 12: a reminder that even in a fractured world, God’s truth remains pure, faithful, and worthy of our trust.

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Chase Hoffman

About the Artist • About the Piece

I was born and raised here in Colorado. I was briefly an engineer before switching careers to photography. I’ve been doing photography professionally for 16 years across several specialties like portraiture, sports, wildlife, landscape, and real estate. My wife and I have been attending Park Church for 11 years. I’m also a father of two energetic boys, Clark and Devin.

The first sentence of Psalm 11 “In the Lord, I take refuge” is the focus of my piece. David is told to “flee like a bird to your mountain” so I chose to embody David as this red-winged blackbird. The wicked in this psalm are intent on violence toward David yet The Lord is his refuge. A refuge isn’t merely a place away from danger, but a place where one can be calm and be assured of salvation. Just like how this bush shelters this bird from predators and the elements, God shelters David and he shelters us.

There is no need to flee, but to remain with God. The artistic process of exploring theological concepts in photography is like a real-world scavenger’s hunt for God’s goodness. Obviously I “make” my art, but unlike other art forms it’s only through real moments that happen around me. That requires a mental shift and stillness to help me find those fleeting moments and then actually capture them. When I found this bird, I was able to sit down on the ground and take my time dialing in my camera’s settings. The two of us actually stayed put together for several minutes. It was clearly aware of me (probably ten feet away), but didn’t feel the need to flee. I was the one that left first after getting more than enough images.