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.