Regeneration

Greetings, All. It has been a very difficult couple of months. It seems like things get worse as chemo goes on. But, it is probably because the chemicals are building up with each treatment. My last one is coming up on the 15th. I am looking forward to getting this done. For a while, anyway… 

So, this is an artwork I did a few weeks ago. I haven’t been able to do anything this last week, so I thought I would post this. I call it “Regeneration”, because I feel like chemo is the ashes from which I hope the beauty comes. The Lord has faithfully carried me through thus far and I know that he will carry me to the end. He has also used many wonderful people in my life, like my long-suffering, patient, and loving husband and my patient, hard-working parents, among most of my other family and friends and prayer warriors. Praise God! How do people do it without the Lord and without other people? I see people alone in the chemo room all too often…

This is approximately 9×12 on toned paper with oil-based colored pencils, alcohol markers, and sharpie.

I tried to make the bottom of the picture to be flames, ashes, and new growth. The woman is me and the tree top is the beautiful fruit springing from my new life. Wouldn’t that be nice?

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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. — J. C. Ryle