So I am a month behind…I kept redoing my painting because I was finding it difficult to get the effect that I wanted. I liked this idea that love is messy. It always has been. For God and for us. Love complicates things. Love costs something. Love is unpredictable. It doesn’t fit into any preset lines or boundaries. That’s what I wanted for my painting and I had all of these ideas of what I wanted it to look like. But after the third try, I realized something. Love doesn’t always look like you imagine it to. In fact, it generally never looks like you expected. So here is my painting. It doesn’t look like I expected and it’s not perfect but I think it represents what I want it to. As silly as it sounds, it’s loosely based off of the idea of the heart that grew 3 sizes at the end of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. As we embrace love, we grow in our ability to receive it and to give it. But it’s a messy process :)

I am having problems uploading the song but I’ll figure it out. I wanted to share the painting in the meantime since I am so past my own deadline.  Hope you like it!