ELATED Painting

Oh, the satisfaction of achievement. My obsession with Renaissance continuous and the beauties of Sandro Botticelli. Another of his main works - ‘Venus’. My humble interpretation of of it. I describe my work through poetry: It's delight which flows without measure from the assurance that through every circumstance and detail of my life God is ever beckoning and drawing me into deeper intimacy with Himself, ever whispering to my heart, “Come closer still.” Joy in the midst of devastating loss, crushing disappointment, unbearable pain or scourging heartache is about the discovery of treasure so precious and rare that it never could have been found had we not been forced to walk a path of affliction in the desert. It's in the isolation and brutality of the wild that we come to know Him in ways that transcend the span of human imagining or desiring, and all the songs and all the poems and all the masterpieces taken together cannot capture an estimable description of the pleasures that might be unearthed there. There lies before us in our afflictions a vast and wondrous beauty yet undisclosed behind the fog, and like a theatrical curtain slowly pulled back to reveal a perfectly set stage He will sublimely unveil it in His own directed time. And we shall be elated at the view, for it's against a backdrop of struggle and darkness that the best and most moving of stories have always unfolded. Maybe nothing truly beautiful can ever take form on earth without the shroud of mystery and brokenness surrounding it— at least not the kind of beauty that takes our breath away and leaves us yearning to possess it. . Poem by Alyssa Underwood

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8.5 W x 11.8 H x 0.4 D in

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