The masterpiece.
Do you remember that show? Probably not, it was an old VHS movie that my mom had when I was young. It was one of those seminary movies (seminary is an LDS class for youth often taken in the morning) . It was about a dying girl who said she would not live longer then the winter struck leafy vine outside her window. And the elderly artist upstairs saw the night the leaf died and fell, wanting the girl to wake up in the morning and see her vine and leaf still there; He went out into the winter night and painted a leaf onto the wall, it was so lifelike that the girl (who spent her entire day looking out the window at that vine) could not tell that it was just a painting. She was so excited that the leaf withstood the winter and felt that she could too. The painter saved her life- I always cry at the end because it’s so sweet; and then cry some more because (of course) the elderly painter died (probably from age and exposure-you know standing on a ladder at night in the winter to paint). I know now that you are all crying with me over such a touching story beautiful summarized (I know:) Lets focus on the good moral of the story.
There are two:
Ready? Well one moral is of course that we can all bless the lives of others. Its also about the preciousness of life.Selfless service, and about how we can use our God given talents to bless those around us.
It got me thinking.
There are two:
Ready? Well one moral is of course that we can all bless the lives of others. Its also about the preciousness of life.Selfless service, and about how we can use our God given talents to bless those around us.
It got me thinking.
I thought about the beautiful influence art can have.
*Sigh* -I think we should all pause right here and picture a great work of art
… Go ahead….. Think of something….. or if you cant come up with anything just google The Last Supper by Divinci or something……Got it? Okay great. I Hope that gave you an uplifting moment.
My kids and I painted this morning and I am sure that the art they made is a masterpiece –at least to me, their mother.
Happy Friday-before-Mother’s Day to everyone.
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Another side note this show is NOT on youtube.
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