WarPaint Project Inc; Artists Donating Art
WarPaint Project Experience Part 2 of 4
Cancer has changed my life; not because I have it, nor do my children; in fact, prior to February 13, 2019 I had not known anyone who had Cancer. On that day, God would appear into my life in a way that I wouldn’t ever know possible, transforming every level of what I thought was important, of who I thought I was, and give to me a person buried deep inside.
We are all the same, built with the unique ability to be inspired, we are given the extraordinary gift of becoming a different person; same body, same name; evolving everywhere else. It’s In this book I will show you the power behind the “pull” to give others your ‘open’ self; standing out on an uncomfortable edge, that you find who you really are. It’s on that edge of risk and chance, driven by generosity and genuine care that you do God’s work, that he trust you with a task and reward you for taking it to his level.
In the last eleven months I’ve met 190 Warriors of Life, each with their own diagnosis and experiences making them ‘worthy’ of this gift; a painting each of them designs to include hidden messages, symbols of their road to Warrior status. I painted 161 paintings for 144 Warriors of Childhood Cancer, Autism, Down’s Syndrome, Breast Cancer and some more rare diagnosis that I had never known before this experience; it’s in their stories, the Warrior’s Bio’ that layers of my hidden self would fall away.
In this experience I hope to share the transforming effect that comes after you give yourself fully to God’s plan surrendering to the unknown, leaning in on your faith that ‘it will be okay’ and smiling in the midst of disastrous life-changing news. I’ll show you how my life was being eaten by toxic people and I willingly allowed it until the moment that God told me I was worth more, to walk away; to carry my bones, the debris of what was left after vultures took away from me the care to love another.
Please enjoy this experience with me, it’s a story about mental health, both my own and of the recipients of my gifts. I am willing to bet that you may learn about a world of faith, hope, encouragement, and love, that is available to you right now; a world where this person inside you lives, who wants to shine; let’s bring that person out.
Whether you know it, whether you feel it; every one of us has a purpose in life, to carry out the actions of God that he cannot be present for; we are all connected by the ground we walk on, the air we breathe, we all have gifts to give; my gift as artist of The WarPaint Project was a boomerang of life’s most important messages; we never fight alone, never grieve alone, and Warriors Never Die.
Thank You for reading,
Aubre’ Murphy
This experience is dedicated to the love of my life, Joseph, whose answer to ‘should I do this {project}?’ was met with an enthusiastic ‘yes, definitely’; who throughout my many levels of change and improvement has been a pillar of hope, love, and support. I love you, thank you for being my very best friend.
