'Reaches My Reaching' Print

This is a detailed print of my painting titled 'Reaches My Reaching'. 

Since I was a young, I have loved the hymn ‘Where Can I Turn For Peace?’. As a child who suffered with intense anxiety and OCD, I discovered that my relationship with the Savior was where I could turn for peace.

Some of my favorite lyrics from that hymn read, “He answers privately, reaches my reaching. In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend. Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching. Constant he is and kind, love without end.”

I have been in several of my own ‘Gethsemanes’ throughout my life. Times where I felt so much sorrow and pain that felt insurmountable. In those moments, the Savior reached me. He met me as a gentle friend and offered me constant and compassionate love.

Many times throughout my life, my faith has felt like this. Reaching, stretching, hoping. This painting is symbolic of that reaching. The forget me not flowers represent the Savior’s love for me. They represent all of the tender mercies and blessings He places in my life. I cannot feel His hands physically, but every time I reach for Him, I am met with that love in other ways. Often that is through other people, through scripture, through art, through music, or through His beautiful creations in nature.

In this painting, the two hands meet in a channel of pure light. This symbolizes the peace that the Savior offers me. Moving away from that channel is a mosaic that gets darker and darker as it gets father from this channel. This mosaic symbolizes my life and my struggles - all of the messy, complicated pieces of life that fit together. These parts of my life don’t always make sense to me and can be overwhelming. When I am in tune with and reaching for my Savior, that is when I feel true peace. That is when I can tune the noise out and feel His love reaching me.

I hope this painting can remind you of the gentle love of the Savior. I hope it can remind you that He is reaching you in your reaching, even when it does not feel like it. I hope it can remind you of all the little ways that He shows His gentle love for you in your life. Look for them. They are there. Little flowers of love sent from above.

I use a beautiful, heavy-weight, acid-free paper for my prints. Prints come unframed and signed by the artist. All of my prints are border-less. Each print is placed in a clear plastic sleeve to protect from moisture while traveling to you, and mailed in a rigid envelope. Colors may vary due to monitor settings. All sales are final.