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Friday, April 11, 2014

If I could Paint a Masterpiece

Many Fridays I join Lisa Jo Baker's Five Minute Friday link up, and this is one of them. Lisa Jo invites us to write unfettered and unedited for 5 minutes, to free what waits within us and then to share it in a safe, encouraging community of friends. If you'd like to join in, visit Lisa Jo's site here. I'm very glad that I did :-)

Today's prompt is PAINT. Ready, set, go . . .

 If I could paint a masterpiece, it would be the same basic scene depicted in four panels. In the background I would place a wooded glen with a rushing stream of water bubbling and foaming as it falls over rocks. The real picture though would be in sharp focus in the foreground, a narrow branch, almost a twig.

In the first panel a caterpillar would be crawling along the narrow branch. A small fuzzy thing. In the second panel a chrysalis would hang from the branch, a womb waiting for new life to appear. Then the third panel would be a tiny head and folded wings just starting to emerge. Finally, in the fourth panel a vividly colored butterfly would be soaring toward the sky . . . free, beautiful, and transformed!

Life goes through stages like the caterpillar becoming the butterfly. We are the caterpillar - important, yet in many ways unrecognized. Life circumstances combined with a Father's loving hands, create a chrysalis where through time and His love, we are transformed into something we never dreamed we could become to soar in freedom and beauty . . . fully changed.

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12 comments:

  1. What lovely thoughts about our lives and a beautiful portrait you have painted tonight! This speaks to me, "We are the caterpillar - important, yet in many ways unrecognized.” Thank you for sharing and I’m visiting from FMF. :D

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    1. So glad to have you stop in from FMF. Hope to see you again in the future.

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  2. Hi Darlene, it's good to visit here today. It's true, life circumstances in the Father's hand do transform us. It's a great reminder for me that the process is ultimately creating something in me, and in each of us, that is beautiful and free.

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    1. Yes, sometimes I write to remind myself of God's plan :-)

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  3. What a wonderful analogy of life in God. Sometimes it is so difficult to accept the less vibrant, unrecognized aspects of a life being transformed. But the hope is always in the freedom of being formed and transformed in the hands of the Creator.

    Thank you for your beautiful words and the encouragement they offer.

    Glad I stopped by from five-minute Friday!

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    1. I'm glad that you stopped by too! Yes, sometimes while we're in the process of transformation, it is difficult to see.

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  4. Hi Darlene,
    What a beautiful picture and truth you would reveal in your painting...Thank you for reminding me of this truth - what God can do in our lives :)

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    1. Thank you for stopping in! Sometimes we all (me included) need reminding that God is still at work!

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    1. Thanks for stopping in, Linda! Always appreciate your words of encouragement.

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  6. More great thoughts, Dar! I love to read your writing!
    ALJ

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  7. Thank you ALJ :) Always love to have you stop in!

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