| One night, I had choir practice at my house with the youth choir from my church. Some members noticed this painting hanging above the piano and asked who painted it and what it meant. "Who's that person the angels are saving?"
"The three angels are supposed to symbolize the Trinity, and the person the angels are saving could represent anyone. It could even represent you," I chided. They continued to ponder about the painting.
I started this painting while I was in high school. There was no pivotal event that happened to compel me to paint this scene; in fact, it took me three years to complete it.
Yet now that I think of it, I painted it because I wondered about the most important things in life. This painting is my reminder of the hope that I found in God. It was painted at a time when a seed of faith was planted in my heart and soul, and was slowly showing itself through my art. Thus was I compelled to paint something that would convey a timeless message, a message that would evoke questions about myself.
I told my choirmates that, like the painting, we too sometimes easily fall through the cracks of this world. Yet God is always there to save us. Hence, the painting's name, "Salvation."
To those of you reading this, God will call on you to evangelize through the gifts that He has bestowed on you as well. Count on it.
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