Pro-life video of the day: The painting that saves lives
by Hans Johnson
Last year, Ron DiCianni, an artist whose work is popular in evangelical circles, painted “Before I Formed You In The Womb.”
It had great personal meaning to him:
I painted Before I Formed You in the Womb to make a statement. A statement that each life is precious to the One who created it, namely God. No life is an accident, and each has a purpose. As someone who was scheduled myself to be aborted, that has been my own story as well as the promise we have in Scripture.
There is no reason, God helping us and His Church partnering with us, that this image can not be made available to every pregnancy center, every doctor’s office, every church and every sidewalk counselor to visually showcase God’s sacred design in each unborn life.
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In an interview with TheBlaze, DiCianni’s son Grant says there has already been one case of a teen mother choosing life because of the painting.
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[HT and photo: TheBlaze]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
off-topic, but a few years ago you posted a video and a link with a CDC researcher who wrote a primer on sex- ed for teenagers. the gist of it, all based on CDC stats, is that teenagers have no business having sex, but are better off waiting until marriage.
Can you remember the name of that book? The husband wishes to have the awkward conversation with the boys soon. He’d like stats to back up his “wait! no, really, WAIT!”
Regardless of what one believes about abortion, that is a BRILLIANT and WONDERFUL painting!
I love this.
I’d like to again point out the care and craft that went into that painting: look at the detail on the hand and on the robe, look at the way shadow and light falls. It is a wonderful painting.
Denise,
Here he describes the nuances of the painting:
Artist Ron DiCianni explains the concept of his painting: In Before I Formed You in the Womb, I wanted to clearly show three things.Notice the hand of Christ reaching out to touch both mother and child.Note as well the hand of the child reaching back.Look at the shadow cast by Christ’s thumb, see how it completes the cross? Christ died for each of us, those long dead and those yet to be conceived. That cross, and the measure of God’s love, is central to any understanding of what it means to be human. Finally, note the star at the place where Christ’s hand touches the mother, that moment of Divine Presence touching real life flesh. I believe that if you could pull back the curtain of what our human eyes are limited to see, we would see that powerful hand of God “knitting” together each child in its mother’s womb.