Pivot

This is my first ever attempt at painting with oils… palette knives… and of using the easel my Dad made for me 18 months ago. It came about when a few different things came together. The desire to paint, the specific idea – and a challenge I received to stop taking in extra information for a week. Lo and behold some deeper thoughts of my own made their way through – and some time to be creative in a range of ways.

The concept of the painting is what I refer to as ‘pivoting at the Cross’.

There is almost nothing I can think of that has been done to me – that I have not done to my Jesus in some form or another – and when I reach for Him… His forgiveness… His provision… I am reminded of what He has done for me – which enables me to reach sideways to forgive and to love.

As I painted, the piece I wrote a few weeks ago came to mind so I’m reposting that here… and a song that has lodged in my heart (from the list of suggested songs that I recently asked for from my Facebook friends) found itself being played on heavy rotation. As I finished this evening – I saw the partnership of the song and the painting – unplanned but Planned. He is Good.

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Have you been lonely?
– so has He

Have you been weary?
– so has He

Have you been ignored, overlooked, forgotten?
– so has He.

Have you been betrayed?
– so has He.

Have you been ridiculed?
– so has He.

Have you been beaten, bruised, brutalised?
– so has He.

Have you been left for dead?
– so has He.

Have you been lied to, lied about – or even ‘truthed’ about in malice?
– so has He.

Have you been ripped by an early death?
– so has He.

Misunderstood – misrepresented – misquoted?
– so has He.

Have you left home for love?
– so has He.

Cried for love?
– so has He

Died for love?

Reach

Recieve

And pivot

– at the Cross
– through the Cross
– because of the beautiful awful Cross