Today was a good day
Here now a week now in India. We are at the orphanage getting ready for the three day conference, where i most likely will be playing with children and getting dirty. The men in this group are the fab five, styling hand tailored indian shirts for the conference.
3 days ago while i was waiting outside the post office in the hot indian sun, while the Pastor and mike were making a western union transaction that took hours, I decided to pull out some drawing pencils i bought here and sketch the street and the shops by the post office. Many passer by’s stopped by to get a glance at my drawing, some thought i was drawing a map.
Mike asked if i could draw and paint a mural in the kids’ classroom after discovering i could draw. So i sketched out a picture of Jesus with black hair and black eyes and and gave him a nice tan, close to a indian skin tone, placed a big red heart on his chest, with his arms out to the side with palms up their is a golden glow around his body he is standing on a grass with purple flowers. To the left of the grass is a small mural of ocean waves with the sunrise in the background with mountains.
The kids were mesmerized by the painting, before i was finished the lord said to me write above the painting ” I am the Lord I am the King” and it was finished. Two days later with alot of unused paint which fell on a monday, we had all day to prepare for the conference, I decided to bring vibrant color to the plain concrete walls to the girls room, By the way, the asian wall paint Im using is highly toxic, I did not eat paint chips while I was a kid.
I sketched out noah’s arc filled with 2 elephants, 2 giraffes, Tucan sam, a pink hippo—Props to Mary Clark, and of course i represented with a bengal tiger, below are ocean waves that connect all three walls in the center of the room are two windows facing you as you walk in, in the center of the windows is a mountain floating on the ocean with a glowing cross erecting from the center of the mountain with a small green forest in the background.
The group wanted me to paint a dove with a olive branch and a rainbow. Dizzy from hours of painting and the fumes i retired, and Meredith took over and painted a dove and a rainbow above the mountain, She got sick from the fumes and had to leave, The lord insisted i finish the outline of the dove and rainbow that was unfinished and asked me to bless the painting in his name. The girls and boys of the orphange were already at the conference. Im looking forward to seeing the girls reaction to their room. Ullas asked “where is noah? why isn’t he on the arc?” I replied “he is downstairs sleeping.”
