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A Rich Masterpiece that is YOU

Addiction recovery is all about second chances. This is my second chance to paint and write about recovery. It is a rebirth of my paintings and a new story about progress, faith, and endurance.

I feel that this is your story too. You are not the same person you where five years ago. You have been reborn like a phoenix. Are there ashes around you? Have you found more wisdom?

I can imagine that your soul is holding onto hope. Take a deep breath, you’ve made it this far, and you can make it to the next bend in the road. 

Why? Because you have arrived here, intact. Where is “here” for you? Where do you live physically, emotionally, and spiritually? This is your, “you are here” on the map of your life.  

Treat each day as a second chance. Everything you do counts. Failure counts, because you are not stagnant or giving up. This is why I am repainting the 12 steps. 

Success also needs to be acknowledged and not taken for granted. If you don’t it’s like it never happened. 

Do the work you need to do to be a whole being. You are a divine soul, and God wants you to be victorious.  

I can see in my mind each mistake, effort, victory, as layers of paint building a rich masterpiece that is you.

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Rebirth

It is beneficial to assume that everything that happens to you, is for your good, eventually. I am experiencing this now as I pray and repaint my 12 Step Recovery Series. It was a very good series and I did the best I could at the time. So why am I fixing them?  Are these paintings broken, or inadequate? Or were they just on their first layer of life experience? 

We humans are layers of heartache, mistakes and rebirth. Each layer is a fracture, beautifully broken. Remember beauty is not pretty, or trendy, it is all your difficult and easy experiences woven together. We are all layered beings who have not given up, and that alone is stunning.

As an artist I desire to move up to my next layer, but it seems impossible. I have heavy responsibilities and my health has suffered. 

Blessedly God is working on me, my life, and talents. I pray, paint, and watch layers of mistakes become the missing puzzle pieces of my composition. How could I have known that my mistakes would add up to a better work of art than anything I could’ve intentionally created? What God is creating through me is greater than my hopes. What God is creating of me layer by layer, is humbling. 

As we all begin this New Year, I pray we can all be reborn in spirit as powerful beings that God is forming, layer by layer and step by step.

Tune in over the next few weeks I'll be up loading the "Reborn 12 Step Paintings." As this process unfolds ask yourself how you can delve through your own layers and allow yourself to be reborn. You deserve every kind question, every beautiful layer.

“A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.”

– James E. Faust.

I agree.