Gifts through Painting

Hi everyone,

It has been a few years since I shared here, so incase you missed it, here are some sharings about the experience of painting that I feel so grateful for, including painting 'his eyes'.

I began painting about two years ago, and love it. Hours turn into days, which disappear in meditation... I feel like a child, not knowing how... just willing to trust and follow...

I love seeing how perception changes... it is a constant process of stepping back, letting go, not being able to judge.

And seeing how essential being guided is... when following, it works out miraculously! One beautiful surprise after another.

I love how it is impossible to judge - because at no single instant can you see the whole picture, even of a specific part of a painting, let alone the end result. There are layers, and it keeps changing. Whatever my eyes are focused upon is all that I can see... and when i come back to it later I see it differently. One brush stroke and everything changes... I love the metaphor for life. It is a constant letting go in the mind - and going purely by feeling. So joyful!!!!! To be kept in a childlike state of mind!!!!

After painting a very simple angel and a feather first, with hardly any details... I went on a trip to Brazil and was guided to give away the picture of Jesus I always carried with me. I wanted another picture when I returned, and heard to paint one!

I couldn't believe he would ask me to paint a portrait when i had no experience of such things!

Somehow it happened - with the help of a few YouTube videos and a few phone calls with Ana and Jackie (artists).

Fast forward a year and the next painting of Jesus has just been finished.

I can't tell you how much I love focussing on him for hours, days, weeks on end.

We never know what may come in to deepen our relationship with Spirit, and keep our mind in the present.

Painting his eyes was a journey in itself.

I prayed for days on what color they should be. Dark brown... as they would have been way back then... for some reason it didn't land in my heart - i looked at some pictures of actors who had played Jesus - and none of them were it...

And then I heard "paint what you see"...

I realized I was focussed on color... and i didn't know how to paint them...

Again I heard, "Paint what you see".... and then I realized... it is the light I see in his eyes.

And then the painting of his eyes happened....

Of course.

Always, no matter what, Focus on the light... and allow the form to be secondary.

Thank you to all of the angels who have been inspirational support for my heart to be open to receive the Gifts. I am so grateful.

Stay open to miracles!!!

With Love and Joy, Kirsten ❤️❤️❤️