It's Ready to go...

I just dropped of my painting for my first gallery show. I will be at Artifacts Gallery in Farmington,  NM for the next two months, starting next week. It's exciting, scary and sad. This is a very hard painting for me to let go. With painting this came a lot of spiritual experiences and growth. The spirit lead my heart and hand every step of the way through this painting. It is with this painting that I saw my potential and a vision of what God would have me do with my talents. I will help him with his work and show people what he wants them to see. It is him I give credit to for my talent and anything I do. That is why I sign my painting the way that I do. Everyone is signed GtG, Glory to God.

This is what I'm going to put on the tag by the painting. 

This picture composed and painted by Heinrich Hofmann catches the rich young ruler in the moment of decision. He has so much; money, power, prestige. He also understands the gospel and tries to live it. He comes to the Savor and asks, “Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” In reply the Savor told him, “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.” The Savor asked him to take all those wonderful things that he had been blessed with and to use them to help others.
Heinrich Hofmann was teaching a lesson with this painting. Not only does Christ ask us to be generious with our wealth, but he asks us to take those gifts and talents, whatever we have been blessed with and to use them to help our fellow man. You may not be able to paint or draw, but you do have talents. Whatever they are, be it cooking, listening to a friend, cheering your neighbor or teaching others, Christ asks us to take those talents and use them to help to those that need it so that we can all have eternal life. ...What will your decision be?

Although I am sad to see this painting go I know that it has a work to do and lives to touch.