His Love Changes Things
by Karen Faire
Title
His Love Changes Things
Artist
Karen Faire
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
This painting holds a special place in my heart for several reasons. One being that it was almost my last painting. I began painting this when we lived in Lake Arrowhead, California. It was then packed away when we moved to Alabama. During that time, my health began to fail and it looked like I was not going to make it through the year. I had lost the use of my hands and was growing weaker daily.
I became a Christian in 1982, so I was a praying woman. As my time to depart was drawing near, I realized how futile my life had been. I had lived a self-centered life and missed so many of the precious gifts that the LORD had given me. This grieved my heart and I began to mourn. As I surrendered my life to the LORD, agreeing with His plans for me no matter what the result, and releasing my husband and my son into His tender care, it was as if the last part of resistance in me had broken and the love of God was allowed to flow into every cell of my being. I was overwhelmed by His love and mercy for me. Even though I was a Christian, I had never felt loved. And though I still lived in a dying body, me, the essence of what I am, was made whole. Areas of my life that I didn�t even know where broken were made whole by my loving Heavenly Father�s love, and that changed everything.
After a few more months, my body began to shut down and I needed medical intervention. They learned how to keep me alive with handfuls of pills, but the real help came two years later when we move once more to where we live now. By God�s own hand and direct intervention through doctors and surgeons I am alive and fully restored, actually, better than restored.
I finished the painting and realized what I was trying to capture that caught my attention when I had taken the pictures.
It was the light.
It was the light gracing these humble flowers with beauty and making them seem significant. Just as the LORD had done with my life, light had done to these roses.
The long title is: Just as light transforms ordinary flowers into extraordinary beauties, so too, God�s love transforms ordinary people into extraordinary beings. His love changes things
This painting won Best of Show when exhibited in the Members Show in the Eastern Shore Art Center, in Fairhope, Alabama, but the real prize is that I am alive and have experienced the love of God. Have you?
�For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, that you may be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inward man; that Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Messiah which passes knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.� Ephesians 3:14-19
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