The Tent - Original

One with you
I come from you
Like an extension of you
That lives within you

Around me, walls
The warmth of your curves
From which one day
Will open a door
From this tent of mine
For me to see your eyes

What shall I be called?
I can tell
But can you hear?
Thank God our ears can be found
In places like our heart

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalm 139:13-16)

Oil and mixed media on canvas
Mixed media: spray paint, acrylics and fabric

The Story Behind The Painting:

I was home, when I felt a very strong nudging in my spirit to paint. I didn't necessarily wanted to paint, so I knew God wanted to paint something. So I opened my two hands and dais to Him: “Holy Spirit, paint whatever You want to paint.”

I then started painting, without thinking too much about what I was doing. I took a golden spray paint and started covering the middle of the canvas with it. After using the spray paint, I took some green acrylic paints and painted around the golden paint. I did that until the bean shape that had been created by my laying of the green paints caught my attention. I said: “It looks like a placenta, let's put a baby inside.” 
So I started looking on Pinterest for pictures of babies int he womb. And I heard God's voice. He said exactly this: “You will put a star of David on his belly button.”

The voice was inside of me, but as clear and precise as the words I just wrote. I said: “Ok Muriel, You're going too far with this your creative mind.” I thought it was just my mind. But these words wouldn't leave. For about a month, I would ask God to tell me why He wanted me to do that if it was Him speaking to me. I just didn't want to put a star of David because I heard it. God had told me that art is a portal, so I had to be careful with whatever I put on my paintings. 

But no explanation. Every time I would ask, I would receive the same answer: “Put a star of David on the belly button.”

And I started seeing stars of David everywhere. And one day, I surrendered. I said to The Lord: “I will obey, Lord. Maybe You will show me the meaning, or show someone, or I will know it in Heaven, but any way I will obey.”

About 2 weeks after I had surrendered, I was on a bus going from Lyon to Paris, searching online a link between the star of David and babies. I opened a page, and I saw it, children wearing the star of David on their coats! It all came together! Abortion is today's Holocaust.

I am so humbled and moved by the Heart of God. He loves babies so much. He made them, and He cherishes them from second one.

Just like the Jews couldn't defend themselves, babies in the womb can't.

Just like the Jews were not considered a race, babies in the womb are not.

And just like eyes have opened to the atrocity of the massacre of Jews, one day eyes will open on the atrocity of the massacre of babies in the womb.

The place that once was the most secure place for a baby –the tent of his/her momma's womb– has become the most dangerous.

This painting is an invitation to love, to repent from selfishness and to consider our neighbor's interest above ours – this is true love.