Testimony in Pictures
This is my testimony. That God can take your disasters and turn them into a classroom to grow His presence.
The tears are the grief and pain we go through, becoming water that causes fresh growth and even a bud of a flower to begin to grow. The car picture is a photo of the car I was in.
Painting the tree was difficult. The tree stopped the car from falling down a hill into a farm pond. I don't remember the tree but emotions still came up that made painting it very painful. As I put in the light and shape depicting the presence of God my spirit relaxed and I found a new sense of God being there. That was and is very healing for me. To me also it resonates with other trees found in scripture.
The cross I often paint at the moment with a door in it's base. Like the cross is a continual invitation to a new way of living.
How do you paint God? How do you feel Him? I feel the majesty, and freedom, an uplifting feeling of peace and grandeur at the same time . That's a bit of I what wanted these pointed arches taken from the form of C12 century Gothic style church windows to convey.
Lying in a hospital bed, crying out to Him, as the medical staff treated me, I was lifted by arms of light and held by the brightest glow that simultaneously I felt was Love and was God.
Given a choice, I saw a path in God's space with Jesus, Peter and others on it.
Seeing them gave me strength to want to live out my life on earth finding out I was to do and to do even a little of it. ( I was only 20 and didn't consider i had done hardly anything). Then to graduate this space and have some of the peace and satisfaction and contentment that those carried who I saw that night.
My boat is painted simply and it's sailing in the light, which is in the shape of a cross. Painters may call this background a Cruciform design. To me it means a life lived bowing the knee and sailing under command to the King.