Powerful Picture

I got an email from Tara’s Mom, Debbie, and the picture attached made me stop and do some deep thinking.  So often during sacrament meeting I am busy making sure Autumn stays quiet and don’t really get to focus too much on what the sacrament really represents.  However, this picture really hit home to me about how important the sacrament is and that it’s a time for me to renew my covenants and think about all the the Savior sacrificed for me.  I love how the little baby wants to walk towards Him and give Him a hug.  Children are so sweet and innocent.  I need to be more thoughtful during the sacrament and this picture is a great reminder of that.

"This painting was unique  from its very beginning.  It would be great if I could take credit for the composition and message  it conveys but in my mind, that would be like Moses taking credit for bringing water from the  stone in the desert.

    "Usually when I have an idea for a painting  it starts as a simple seed and it grows as I play with the image in my mind, moving the characters  around, imagining the lights and shadows, the values and the colors, eventually deciding on its composition after  what might be weeks or even months of pondering and sketches, but this painting was different.  There was no seed,  no moving of characters, it was totally different.”    

"I was sitting in church on a Sunday afternoon as  the Sacrament was being passed and bang, there it was, the image was instantaneously placed before  my mind’s eye just as you see it here.  This experience has happened to me only three  times and it has been very special each time."

Doc Christensen