Title: Take Courage
Size: 14" x 18”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Artist: Catherine Wong
Date: 28th January 2019
During our church prayer meeting on the 26th of January, 2019, I kept seeing the colours blue and white around the whole room. That was when I realised that the colours were those of the flag of Israel!
I felt the prompting to pray blessings over Israel, and that eventually led me to Psalms 128:5-6 NLT:
“May the Lord continually bless you from Zion. May you see Jerusalem prosper as long as you live. May you live to enjoy your grandchildren. May Israel have peace!”
On the 28th of January, 2019, I was asking the Lord what to paint for the Heartbeat Project. Then, I saw a vision of a purple butterfly. I felt it strange to paint a butterfly as I thought the project is about babies. Out of curiosity, I googled the meaning behind a “purple butterfly”. To my surprise, I found out that if any incubator has a purple butterfly logo on it, it actually means that the baby is one of a set of multiples in which one or more babies were lost.
Thus, I started the painting with 3 main colours- Blue, White and Purple. In my vision, I saw a purple butterfly in a “crystal ball” against a background of blue and white.
This painting intends to bring out hope and courage to live through the toughest time. This is especially for those who have lost one or more babies in a set of multiples during a pregnancy or at birth.
The purple butterfly inside the “crystal ball” is a memorial of a death of an unborn child inside the amniotic sac. The colour of Israel’s flag is also a reminder to us of God’s promises and faithfulness to us.
