“Don’t Forget to Look up”
Pastel, 12”x18”
$600
This one took awhile… the hang-up always seems to come with what to name a painting, this one included. This painting— I took this picture while walking a trail on the way to a waterfall. I looked up, and it was beautiful, right there in the middle of the woods, nowhere in particular. I’d almost missed it. And I’m thinking about how that’s a picture of where I am right now- maybe where a few of you are too, I don’t know. I’ve got this pretty destination in mind, and I think how when I get there it will be great. I’ll have figured out how to make ends meet as a single mother. I’ll have margin- time and rest and finances! I’ll be settled and at peace. I’m getting there. But as I think about this painting, I think about how I need just stop the “I wills” and consider how the Lord has made my “right now” beautiful. I have everything I need, right now. He’s taking care of me, right now. He’s given me his companionship, and a home, and loving children, right now. I could miss all this if I don’t stop, look up and thank Him. And really, is the whole point to get to the end? Or is it to appreciate and to thank him for the path that He’s laid out for me to walk, as I’m walking it? I love this place. I love the Lord who takes care of me. I love the people He’s surrounded me with, who remind me to look up. Have a blessed day, my friends!
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