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"20 x 20" Canvas Print"
Age 9 The Light Bearers
The Spokesman Review reporter
came to the house for a few hours to interview Akiane for a feature article. Her
parents were surprised that their emphasis was on spirituality and that they
were taking all the photographs of her next to the Jesus paintings. Usually, the
media liked to stay neutral on that matter.
“Did you ever think of taking her to a
psychiatrist?” the writer and reporter asked Akiane's mother.She understood that
for many only a psychiatrist's diagnosis would verify normal sanity, especially,
if a person claims to see God. Not long ago, she herself had been one of these
skeptics.
“What did you want to express in this
finished painting of The Bears?” the photographer asked Akiane. Barefoot, and
wearing a yellow top and a flowing white skirt, Akiane sat on her paint-stained
swiveling art chair, twisted her long blonde hair around her fingers and
replied:
“I still do not have a title, but these
five groups of bears represent five groups of people responding differently to
God. This is an allegory. When the light shines from above, representing God and
truth, only three groups notice it. One group runs away from it, even risking
life. The next gets very angry, as it roars, and the third has the heads raised
in awe, wonder and joy. They are the only ones with the reflection in the water
because they are calm and peaceful. The other two groups have not noticed light
at all. They are the fighters and the selfish. One group is busy fighting to get
things and the other is busy taking care of just themselves. So the moral of
this painting is this: do not run away from light, do not be angry with light,
do not fight or think of yourself, otherwise, you will miss the light
completely. Look up to God to live and God will provide.”
Akiane
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