Shepherd in the Woods

If you look closely at the shepherd holding the torch you will see He is wearing a crown of thorns.

The meaning is simple. Sometimes I feel I am lost in darkness. Sometimes I tarry a little too far behind my Shepherd.

He understands. He holds up, He whispers to His flock to remain still for a moment, while He turns to coax me back into the light.

The image is made up of prayers and passages of scripture with watercolor pens I bought.

Once I had put the colors down with the pens, I washed them with water with a small brush. They blended into the background, their words vanishing, but leaving the colors and thoughts staining the white page.

I then went over the whole thing with different colored fine point Sharpies, prayers about find a path through dark times. The colors were still a little garish and varied, so I muted parts with colored pencils.

A few words about my signature: I don’t sign these prayers with my real name because all that matters are the prayers themselves, not who did them. So, I sign them “CS” the initials of my nom de plume for writing I do on the internet: Curious Servant.

Still, this is an art show and I’ll peek from behind the picture to tell you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, that Curious Servant is Will Greenleaf.