Decoupaged....

These are my recent Music Abstract Paintings done with a technique called Decoupage. Decoupage is an original arrangement of cut-outs or paste-ons used on any surface or canvas or accessories to simulate painting.

It was fun tearing these print-outs n then pasting on with texture n paints and the result turned out  nice n unique. :)

"Love Untitled"

LOVE UNTITLED

Love...The most difficult topic to write about..like so many others attempted to write, I am also not an exception and trying to comprehend this word in light of my life...Recently have started thinking about it a lot...maybe because this topic is a writer's choice or a poet's first theme, or maybe a painter's obsession or perhaps life is shaping up in a brand new way. And the reason is that its unique for every individual..and for me too.....its a feeling which pockets so many emotions together. Love is not always beautiful, its not always rosy, its not always singing and dancing, but has many more emotions when you feel low, down, depressed, lonely, aggressive, longing, angry, n so on....but most importantly, inspite of all of it....Love still holds its place firm in your heart...it says be patient ...this will all come to pass.

For me its the only feeling which reveals your true self...when you are You...you evolve together with a person you love...you grow with sweet n sour memories together..which knits two people more closely and binds them stronger ..where one loses the grip on life other comes along...when one falls other lifts up.....when one drowns in depression the other gives you hand and pulls you back...

Love is a gift from God. Its patient. Its kind. Its forgiving. Its seeing the good n ignoring the wrong. Its an Inspiration. Its a desire to live fully. Its a smile. Its a twinkle in the eye. Its the joy of the heart. 

For me Love is not Blind.....its a special sight God gives to a person to be able to see the other person with God's vision.

Painting "Love Untitled" by me
Acrylic on stretched canvas

Word of God / Wilderness!!

Today while I was having my Quiet Time ...actually had lot of things to talk about and to begin with I let God take the lead from the Scripture and allowed Him to speak to me and I was lead  to the passage in the book of Deuteronomy...where I read :

2 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

After reading this suddenly the whole story about the journey of stubborn and grumbling Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land flashed in my memory and also how God used Moses and then Joshua to shepherd the Israelites through the wilderness leading them into Canaan - The Promised Land.

There are few things which God was bringing to my attention  from Deuteronomy 8:2-3

God led Israelites through the wilderness for forty long years for a Purpose, the purpose of  humbling them down and testing them to prove their character to find out whether or not they truely loved Him, whether they are intently obeying Him or not...For God the first concern towards us is Love and Obedience...He is only interested in our Hearts...n no other human effort!

The next thing that came to my focus in these verses was the word "hunger".

Yes! I remember, 7 yrs back, when I too was going through the hardest, the toughest, the bitter part of my life where God purposely set in the hunger from almost all directions.....

He humbles us so that we can Love him honestly ,  He brings us down on our knees so that we can depend only on Him, He breaks us so that He can sprout a new life in us which could belong to him alone. And He does that by letting us go hungry, hungry for perfect life, hungry for better relationships, hungry for perfect jobs, hungry to fill up the void in our lives, hungry for the calmness and peace in our hearts, hungry to know what lies ahead, hungry to clear our past fears, hungry for forgiveness of people...and so much more ....

And then when He finishes His task of humbling us down, he feeds us with Manna - a food previously unknown, never heard of, never ever seen by anyone....a food that was showered upon Israelites in the wilderness, where there was no source or resource expected. God provided them food! Food which filled them to their satisfaction.
This is how God fills...fills emotionally, physically and spiritually...and gives you abundant life so that we can praise Him and thank Him and Glorify him and enjoy His love and Fellowship more and more with all our hearts without distraction ...and then He automatically takes care of all our worries and queries of life.

By doing all this He teaches us that its not the food that we eat gives us Life but we need more and more of  "Manna for Life" which comes from feeding on every Word God speaks to us when we have a humble n teachable heart to be able to be taught by God , our Father who disciplines us like His own child...just to help us enjoy the Life he has promised us.

For me its an everyday affair to come at my Abba Father's feet and ask him to humble me down n make me teachable n obedient to His word. But only by his grace I am able.

I want to ask few questions to myself.....

Am I still going through an exile that God had set up for me like for Israelites in the wilderness for forty long years or I am allowing God to transform me to be able to enjoy the life He has dreamed for me?
Am I craving for the right food? Are there any areas in my life that needs to be humbled down further? Am I acknowledging God's Manna in my life or just taking them casually?

Praising God for speaking to me today.

Blessings for all those who gonna read this testimony.
May God be with you. Forever and Ever.