Artful Hope

This is a bit of processing, but in the end has a good message.

In the center of this picture (see above or to the left) is a mess, a mess of emotions, where all the colors blend into each otehr so that no one emotion is identifiable.

Radiating out from that are the emotions that cross through and get into the mess. Anger: red and jagged, Sadness: big and dark blue, Frustration and Loss of hope in the black, Hope in the pink of breast cancer awareness and in the comforting purple and green, the unidentifiable emotions in the brown and gray that are mushed into the pink, Anxiety and Fear streak through the picture in the almost unmushed orange and yellow.

The blue, purple, and red run into each other, connecting in the blue; so sadness, hope and anger mix together on either side of the mess. Gray brown and pink mush together in the pink; the unidentifiable messing with hope. Green, orange and yellow basically do not run into each other; they're more side by side. Hope races alongside fear and anxiety. The black runs through the middle, trying to take over; Hopelessness and frustration trying to rule the day.

Yet hopelessness is outnumbered. Only one color of it, verses 3 for hope (purple, pink, and green).

Maybe I feel more hope than I realize, it's semi-hidden, even in the picture, but it's there. It's mixing in with anger and sadness; it's mixing in with the unidentifiable, and it's running alongside fear and anxiety. Hope is the most abundant emotion! If I can only remember this, things will be better.

Thanks, God, for the urge to create and write. You've reminded me of the hope that's really there....