Thursday, December 22, 2011

Happy Holy Days

Ellen Santistevan 2011


This vision came to me last week.  I had to paint it three times.  This was the first one, rough around the edges, but still powerful to me.

When I am fortunate enough to be open to my guides, I do hear complete sentences, and sometimes I also get a visual.  This was one of those times.  The Sacred Heart, typically represented in catholic imagery as strangled by thorns which pierce it, was presented to me instead as an image of love instead of sacrifice and suffering.  Although many souls seem to choose their incarnation here as an opportunity to experience suffering, I fully believe that our eventual destiny is to BE LOVE.  Certainly that is my desired outcome.

I hope that all who come across this page, on purpose or by happy accident, will take away this message of light in this time, these dark days of winter, the solstice.  A time to go within, to be in contemplative retreat, to withdraw from the mad commercialized rush and just exist with ourselves.  Love your authentic self, let go of regrets, remember that all of your past has led you here, to this moment, today.  That's all.

Love.