Painted

Original photo by Todd Jenkins

Just words, connecting the dots

enough to sketch the big picture;

remembering that, with water color

or crayons or charcoal or even

a bucket of house paint,

however and in whatever shade

your life is decorated today,

the One who dreamed

and drew you before you were born

has your image on the fridge;

your outside-the-lines self

that sometimes feels insignificant

and hurts in ways and places

you'd prefer to have never known.

Never beyond the divine gaze,

your pain and passion,

your hurt and hope

are always on God's heart;

your wholeness being whispered

onto the canvas this instant.

© 2013 Todd Jenkins