This is a painting I did Fall of 2024, when I was just around the corner from my breakthrough and had no idea. Obviously it’s a very personal piece, I wasn’t sure I’d ever share it, but I think it’s so good to share stories of hope so that others will wait for the light at the end of their tunnels too.
The past two years have been hard, I’ve felt highs and a lot of lows, I’ve been full of fear, anger, heartbreak, love, loss and pain, trying to understand why certain things happen the way they do. Being SO honest I was starting to wonder if it would ever get
better, if I would ever feel like myself again, if I would ever see the outcome of why these hard things happened. I felt broken… until I realized that the places we break are the places we can allow the our light to shine through. The more breaks, the more light.
That’s when I had the idea of this painting. Even though I was hurting bad, I knew God was working on me, growing me, and my light was about to get relit. I wanted to show the light (God is my light) that is in me, shining through, even through the pain. Trusting that He had a plan for it all, that there were blessings being planted all around me and all the trails that felt never ending was a whole lot of rain that came to grow those blessings and grow me. Sure enough! A month later, I’m looking back at ALL OF IT- Thankful.
I’m so thankful for the pain and the breaking- without it, I wouldn’t have my spark back again, I can see the light in my eyes again, I feel whole, all because of the breaking I went through and my light has that many more breaks to shine through for the world to see. So my bad if I blind you with my light, that’s the JOY OF THE LORD in me and it can’t be toned down!
Also it’s kindve like when your nose is plugged when you’re sick. You can’t help but wish you enjoyed breathing out your clear nose when you weren’t sick…just like that, I feel like I’ve been in a nonstop cold with a really bad plugged nose and now I can breathe through BOTH nostrils again and I’m even MORE thankful because of the plugged nostrils !!! LOL
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I’m so thankful to have you all!
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