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Only as a child, I never got to be that girl. I always deeply wanted to be, tried a few times but always if I wanted to take part, it was always as a fighter never the one fought for. Now as an grown woman looking back I reflected over this frequent childhood play scenario, and why it spoke so deeply to my heart. I came to the realization that maybe I was never the princess because my beauty wasn’t just made for gilded courts. While I am made to be fully alive as a woman fully herself standing tall with beauty and crowned in authority. I am not tame. I am fully alive in the place of adventure. I want the wild. I realized in that moment that I was then, and indeed still am no princess to be rescued, I instead was a warrior Queen.\u003c\/span\u003e  I entered the fray, \u003cspan\u003e shining with rosy cheeks and eyes afire, hair flowing around me, face to the wind. Adventure calls to me.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eI am powerful and I will be free.\u003c\/span\u003e Thus this particular adventure began.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"war-cry","title":"War Cry","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30in x40in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal piece is Acrylic on Gallery wrapped Canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 1st Painting in the War Cry Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsaiah 61, Isaiah 52: 6-7, Matthew 11:12, Luke 11:2, Colossians 2:10\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Painting came out of a series of encounters and features the original poem \"War Cry\" I wrote in Spring of 2018 as this series began to percolate in my heart. The Poem is inscribed on this piece as the flagship Painting and first in the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs I child my companions and I were always playing at a scenario where one was the princess and everyone else fought to save this representation of the Beloved. Only as I child, I never got to be that girl. I always deeply wanted to be, tried a few times but always if I wanted to take part it was always as a fighter. Now as an adult woman looking back I reflected over this frequent childhood play scenario, I came to the realization that maybe my beauty wasn’t just made for gilded courts. While I am made to be fully alive as a woman fully herself standing tall with beauty and crowned in authority. I am not tame. I am fully alive in the place of adventure. I want the wild. I realized in that moment that I was, and indeed still am, no princess to be rescued I instead was a warrior Queen.\u003c\/span\u003e  I entered the fray, \u003cspan\u003e shining with rosy cheeks and eyes afire, hair flowing around me, face to the wind. Adventure calls to me.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eI am powerful and I will be free.\u003c\/span\u003e Thus began the beginning percolations of this series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Warrior, she is waiting at rest and listening. Her heart decided, the battle ahead. She is a woman, a battle tested beauty, and she knows the fight is coming. She knows her resolve, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e knows she will not shrink back. 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Eventually like the tin man (or woman) we rust over forgetting that Life comes from the Heart and somewhere on our journey we misplaced ours somewhere, waking up one day and realizing something's missing and how did we get here. But the truth is you are not simply who you THINK you are, you are actually WHO God says you are. His view of you is far greater and more radiant than you realize and his word is filled with promises to that effect. YOU are the bride of Christ. YOU are known by a God who chooses to let himself be known by you and so much so he realized you'd never make it so he bridged the gap himself. You are not rubbish, you are not a worthless human that he guesses he could possibly let in, since Jesus asked (twice). You are not the free gift with purchase. It neither matters if you are (too) young or (too) old or (too) skinny or not skinny enough. You ARE precious. 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He smiled at me and with a grin told me to blow on them. So, I did, and up into a cloud billowed the granules blinking in beautiful blue sparkles. Looking back into the twinkling eyes of the Savior, I met a grin. and he responded to the question mark on my face with \"Blow on the Seeds of Hope around you.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo many people have hidden inside them seeds of ideas, seeds of talents, seeds of dreams hidden far down and sometimes all it takes is someone to see the potential and blow on them a bit like the spark of an ember. The world needs people daring enough to risk being seen or even willing to give others a hand in realizing that dream. 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But realized that \"Resolve\" said everything and more elegantly. Artist Problems. lol.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of the story of this series was the Warrior at rest. \u003cspan\u003eThe Warrior, she was waiting, at rest and listening. Her heart decided, the battle still ahead. She is a woman, a battle tested beauty, and she knows the fight is coming. She knows her resolve, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e knows she will not shrink back. She may not be the commander but she is no less a feared warrior, a Holy monster, and she carries the heart of the Kingdom and the will to win. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach progressive painting expanded on aspects of this \u003c\/span\u003eidentity and the places where it breathes, common especially to women. 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