The Artist Who Loved Me

We all come to God in our own way, with our own unique perspective. Those responses must be another reflection of God's great creativity in us. I know him as the true father we all long for, but I also see him as the artist who could not part with his work. He could not abandon his masterpiece, his children and the beautiful little home he made for them. Could you? Even in his amazing anger, cursing his own work, he could not be angry forever.
If you're a creator of something you love, or if you're a mother or father, yourself, then you can understand the heart of God a little bit. He may be more passionate, more loving, more amazing, and more like you than you could have ever imagined. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as they say.

The Beloved Artist

If this landscape has been cursed
then I can't wait to see the one blessed.
Did you see the shades of its day?
Did you see how its blossoms were dressed?

If this is a painting given to me
so that I may daydream of its promise,
then I will love it to death
and give my heart to its artist.

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Below are verses describing the great curse and redemption. They explain a lot - if you believe them. Take the scripture link to the whole chapter to continue reading. It's amazing.

...the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground 
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.

- Genesis 3:17-19


Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,
and no one will even think about the old ones anymore.
Be glad; rejoice forever in my creation!And look! I will create Jerusalem as a place of happiness.
Her people will be a source of joy.
I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and delight in my people.
And the sound of weeping and crying
will be heard in it no more.

“No longer will babies die when only a few days old.
No longer will adults die before they have lived a full life.
No longer will people be considered old at one hundred!
Only the cursed will die that young!
In those days people will live in the houses they build
and eat the fruit of their own vineyards.

- Isaiah 65:17-18