If art is the imitation of life and life is the imitation of art, then we (humans) are living, breathing, works of God’s artistic expression. And, like a portrait, the impression of our life’s canvas, should be etched in the hearts and minds, of the people we meet and surround ourselves by. The impression we then leave behind, whether negative or positive becomes the window into which, we are conceptually viewed. If this is true, then a persons’ first impression of our canvas becomes synonymous for who we will always be to them. And, no matter how much time we spend with a person, their interpretation of us becomes our motif and it will forever hang on the wall in the back of their mind.

If a person, presents to us first a palette of darkness and then later a contrasting palette of light, our mind’s eye will instinctively imprint their canvas with darkness; and it will unconsciously be interpreted as such. While, their second presentation may emulate light, it will simultaneously be negatively stained by the darkness they first presented. This makes it almost impossible for us to embrace their light or believe a person can or has changed. And, until a person proves to us beyond a shadow of a doubt, the positive light being emitted from their canvas, means nothing! The original portrait of their darkness will continue to hang, on the back wall, in our minds. This is the reason why it is hard, for people who have spent time in jail or who have been in prison, to escape the impressions of their past. They may live, breath, and work in the light, but the stained canvas of their past will continue to linger, in the dimensional darkness, of the peoples’ minds whose first impression of them was darkness.

In theory, this means, a person who presents a palette of light and later a contrasting palette of darkness, our mind’s eye will intuitively-imprint and interpret their canvas as being one of light. And, even though we clearly see their darkness, we emphatically believe, the light we saw first in them, will overshadow their darkness. This explains why a mother, often only sees the good in her children, when they are accused of doing wrong and others do not. She may have concrete, irrefutable proof they are guilty of committing a crime, but, she will be the first person to come to their defense and stand beside them. She does this because, the canvased impression she has of her children, hanging on the back wall, in her mind, is the light she saw in them, the first day they were born.

In conclusion, we (humans) are God’s artistic expression of light and our canvas at birth, is primed, with his haloed light. He skillfully designs us to be replicas of him; we are each uniquely framed to display his love and image. And, our life’s canvas should then genuinely reflect, the light he imprinted upon us.