Tears Born in Pain…Filled with Hope: The 9th of Av Story Behind the Painting
It was two years ago during the nine days of Av. I had the picture vision in my head and sketched it out. It was a rough sketch–more about getting emotions out than making a pretty picture–but somehow I knew it was a message from God. A truth He had been speaking to my heart. Just a month and a half earlier, I had experienced a late-term miscarriage. I was eighteen weeks along, to be exact. It landed me in the hospital hemorrhaging with dangerously low hemoglobin levels, but more...