Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monarch! (sketch)
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By Ramone - February 7, 2007
I did this ink sketch at midnight when I realized what kind of 'butterfly' I am in the Lord! Awhile ago when God gave me this picture, He used the "butterfly" to tell me about myself and my struggles -- and how He was using them to strengthen my faith and teach me to fly in Him. That led to a series of personal pictures on the butterfly theme.
This particular picture came after watching an NHK documentary series called "Planet Earth", in which for several minutes they showed the migration of Monarch butterflies as they rested in Mexico. They were beautiful, but there were so many of them it weighed entire tree branches down! It was after watching that documentary that the Lord spoke to my heart and let me know what kind of butterfly I am!
When I saw the first picture ("Through it all") of a butterfly's wing and He told me it was me, I wasn't exactly sure what kind it was. And you know, I didn't bother to look it up before putting ink to paper. I just did it as I saw it (as best as I could see it from memory in my mind's eye!) and hoped it looked well. I kind of like those first pictures for that reason. But when this picture ("Monarch!") came along, I finally knew I could look at pictures and paint them better. But (haha), I thought I was done with the butterfly theme!
But later another picture and another followed. For those I looked at real pictures of Monarchs, but for this one, since I thought it was only a sketch and didn't anticipate more pictures to come, I just guessed from my poor memory and did it without looking at a picture of a real Monarch butterfly, so of course this picture looks nothing like a real Monarch butterfly! I don't know if I'll redo it someday. Maybe. Hopefully.
When I was little I used to keep caterpillars in jars. I remember seeing Monarch butterfly caterpillars and always wished I could get one of those and keep it. I think once I got one, but it turned out a wasp had laid eggs on it, and out of the cocoon came... a big nasty wasp! That was a little traumatizing! So I never got to keep my own Monarch butterfly. But I always wanted one. They were cool, beautiful, and ate a plant with a cool name ("milkweed").
So it was kind of nice to be "labeled" by Him as a "Monarch"! It's something I didn't know I wanted, but He did. Really, it's the butterfly that I knew most about, and that I kind of looked at as the best, or the king of butterflies, so to speak! And that's it's name, "Monarch"!
Isn't that true of us?
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
He is the Monarch, the Royal One, the King of kings! And He gave us His inheritance and made us adopted sons of His Father -- now our Father, our Abba, our Daddy. Thank You, God! I fly in You, in what You have done for me!
# posted by Ramone @ 8:33 PM 
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