Today, I'm so excited for y'all to hear the story behind this painting! My sweet friend Sarah gave me the blessing and honor of creating it about her recent journey through adoption. I hope you are as encouraged by her story as I am!
What is the story behind your painting?
Earlier in our
adoption (we're currently adopting a 7 yr old boy from China) we were going
through some stuff that was really messing w/ my head. Our adoption seemed
really fragile and I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone- like all these weird
things that we should have total control over were actually out of my control
and that they were threatening the adoption. One particular day I was
completely overwhelmed so instead of working on my to-do list when I put my
kids down for naps, I just got quiet and spent some time in my Bible. I read a
"random" devotional by John Piper that didn't seem to fit my current
situation at all, but then there was this verse, Isaiah 43:5, tucked in there.
I don't remember what the devotional was about, but I remember thinking it was
so weird for this verse to be in there. God totally stilled my heart w/ that
verse and all my worry was immediately gone. He said it. I trust his Word to be
infallible. It's done.
What's your
favorite thing about your painting?
Hands down, it's the
vantage point. We didn't expect our next adoption to be an international one-
and especially not from China. Neither me or my husband have ever had a tender
heart toward China or known much about the country or its culture. But that's
changing more every day and looking at a view of the world and being able to
see where we are in the same frame as where our son lives right now is surreal
because I still haven't completely wrapped my head around it, humbling because
this is a really BIG world we live in and God chose to intertwine our lives w/
this little boy that lives all the way over there , and at the same time it's
comforting because as huge as this world is, it still fits in the palm of our
Creator's hand and he's totally got this thing covered.
How will you style your painting in your home?
Right now it's sitting
on a shelf as part of a collage/gallery of other paintings and prints because I
want it in the living room where I can see it and am reminded of it throughout
the day. But when we bring Yuan Li home, it'll go in the boys' bedroom. I can
totally picture sitting on the bed w/ him before he goes to sleep and telling
him the story behind the painting and what it was like to pursue him and wait
for the time we until we got to go get him.
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