Listen to what people say but listen to it as an option –
not a choice you have to make. Do the best YOU can do and do what works for you and your family.
"For this I bless you as the ruins fall: the pains You give me are more precious than all other gains.” -C.S. Lewis
Yesterday during my morning quite time, I read a devotional about Leah from the Bible. She was a woman familiar with rejection; her husband was tricked into marrying her and preferred her beautiful sister Rachael.
Recently I completed a commission of two-year-old Virgil Love. That's right, Virgil Love. His mom, Courtney, named him after her grandfather, and what a name it is. I'm insisting that he has to grow up and be a musician or author. No C.P.A. should ever be named Virgil Love.
One important thing I've learned from painting portraits is that every child needs to know they are important. They want to feel loved and valued for who they are, not what they do or what others think of them. Each portrait I paint is about honoring the uniqueness of the child.