“I Didn’t Realize I Was Laughing”
I taught a class two nights ago that was magical. Art is a lot like fishing. Most of my fishing stories have nothing to do with fish. Likewise, many of the stories from my art classes have nothing to do with oil painting.
We were all diligently working on a piece together, when one of my students laughed at something that was said. I piped right up, “I love your laugh.”
After class she told me that she hadn’t laughed in a year, which was how long her husband had been dead. He was killed last year in a horrifying traffic accident.
One of the great things about art classes is that they are tools God uses to bring people back to living again.
I experienced the same thing after my dad died. I never thought I would laugh again, but I did…right in the middle of an oil painting…right there with my friends from the class.
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