Cave Time-Mother nature helps out

Hello from Oaxaca Mexico everyone, hope this post finds you all healthy and safe.  Seems we have entered the season of hurricanes, and mother nature has come in hot.  My heart and prayers go out to each and every single family that were in the pathways of these crazy storms, Many Blessings upon you all.  

 For our family in Oaxaca, we have been safe, lots and lots of rain every day, some mucky roads with swollen puddles. 

 Our area is farmland, and some roads (ours) are not paved, and some roads are made to be like a watershed or run off (ours), so when the rains come the road turns into a little river.  Sometimes a little torrent and you had better stay home.

I call those times Cave time.  You just want to stay home, and Mother Nature is helping you out.  You envision getting all cozy with hot tea or chocolate and getting dressed is optional along with brushing your hair and because it’s so cold I even broke out my mini heater and aimed it at my feet. 

While cooped up, I have spent days painting, sometimes getting lost in the process for hours, I believe this is what is called the flow state.  You're not even hungry…you're so focused on the creative process that you become one with it.  

Before I knew it, time had flown by and I had a brand-new completed painting, ready to sign.  I also had finished a Dragon painting that had been sitting around just waiting for me to be in the “flow”.  Then I also prepared three canvases and figured out my design.  

What was my catalyst for change?  There are the obvious ones where the weather was bad enough to not want to go anywhere, and yoga was canceled for the week, so no engagements.  

Also, there was this accumulation of all the required ingredients, having canvas, paints waiting to be used, brushes, and other various tools and yet the most important ingredient of all has been a newfound desire to paint into reality my visions, my dreams, my received messages.  

It’s like finally within my heart, the fog has cleared, and I can see my path, I can see or actually I feel them (the paintings forming) within me and then I create or release the vision to come into light. 

It’s like all of a sudden, the light has shined so bright in my heart that I know my purpose…I’m going to use my talents to bring into reality this vision of the light of love I felt during my NDE. 

 I am going to create New Earth or Heaven on Earth paintings, ones that express that YOU are the Light of Love.

Every day we are creating heaven on earth…. we are the LIGHT, so let us become as one, together, in a collective harmony of love, working together to create solutions for the good of all. 

For years I have wanted this clarity.  So many times, over the years, I have felt like I was the ball in the game of “pinball” and the wizard of pinball was laughing as he saw me being whirled into this idea (ding, ding, ding) and then whirled into the next (ding, ding, ding!).  

One day I was an artist and then the owner of an antique and junk shop, and then I was raising sheep and becoming a spinner and weaver, and the list goes on.  I had no idea really what path I should take and so I just followed whatever came my way. But one thing was obvious, everything I was passionate about involved creating artistically.

 It really felt funny calling myself an artist, I was just one who painted, and I liked painting everything.  For a while I was a painter and finisher on a construction crew, working with my mom.   It was truly a great experience, and I learned a great deal about how to prepare surfaces for painting and staining.  

Something shifted for me during the Covid years and all of a sudden, I had this clarity for not only calling myself an artist, I began to think more and more like an artist with actionable steps to make it so.  

Oh, over the years I have had several synchronicities and hit me over the head with a frying pan moment, as God kept whispering to me, as my angels and guides kept trying to say so many times, YES, JOHANNA, YOU ARE AN ARTIST, and then I would say “are you sure?”    

During Covid years, I produced several pieces of art and sold almost every single one.  It helped fund our major move to Mexico in May of 2021.   During these times I was laid off, and the government wanted you to actually stay in your home (CAVE TIME!). 

Into a flow state, mesmerized by the creative process, piece after piece began to be formed.  No one to talk to, nowhere to go, only the geese floating by our floating home was keeping me company, and all the right elements had come together and the most important one of all was just my willingness to let go of my own judgment of my work and start to really enjoy whatever I created, receive God’s gifts of inspiration and to take action.  

Today, I feel free to create, my heart has healed, and out of my heart flows this light of love.  

I will share that. It’s become my passion and purpose, and it is my hope that you can feel this energy of love, in each and every painting.  

Here is my newest painting, so you can get an idea of how God whispers to my heart. 

Everyone has this inner light of love and as I write this, many are becoming aware, and this love light is expanding with joy and spreading like a wildfire.  

It is my hope to create art that “speaks to your spirit and awakens your soul”.  Remember who you are...you are the light of love.  

Tell me in the comments below…does this painting evoke emotion; does it create curiosity?  If it does, talk to me.  Tell me your thoughts.

Till next time, 
Be the light and shine your love all over, 
Johanna

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