A WORLD OF ALL POSSIBILITIES

I feel like the luckiest man alive because I have been given a second chance. I feel like I am a painter with a fresh, newly-stretched canvas to paint on—to paint whatever I please. What an exciting feeling to stand in front of a blank canvas, to have a world of all possibilities before me. I’m in the wonderful position of being able to create a whole new world for myself.

So what am I going to paint?

I am going to paint a dream—one of my own creation. In the dream is a man. The man is a painter who makes paintings with people in them to inhabit the world he creates. He puts himself in the world along with the others and thus he creates relationships he can learn from. Whatever he creates, ultimately, is to help him grow. All the people he paints, for some reason, look a lot like him. It’s as if he creates them in his own image, or as if they all represent different parts of him. He knows the message is, we are all the same.

I ask myself, where on the canvas do I begin my painting? Which line do I make first? Almost immediately the answer comes: It doesn’t really matter where I begin or even what the line looks like. If I begin to paint and if the line’s not exactly right I can paint a different one over it. It’s easy because I know I can keep doing it over until I get it right.