Blood and Water Flowed

I've written a lot about this one because I believe the message behind this painting is the most important one I will ever be given. I entered it in a contest and that took some explaining.

Here goes:

For the sake of the contest I am entering,
I felt a need to explain why
I wanted to enter this for: REGRET
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~ ~ contest topic REGRET



**"One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and immediately

... BLOOD AND WATER FLOWED out."

In the greatest act of love in history,
and in fulfillment of a complicated, centuries-old system of sacrifices,
Jesus became the perfect sacrificial Lamb of God. The Passover Lamb.

The REGRET theme can be explained through 2 different, but connected stories.

The character Aslan of Narnia
is a symbolic MESSIAH figure.

Aslan allows his enemies, led by the Queen, also known as Jardis the White Witch, to torment, humiliate and murder him. [reference The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]

Edmund, character of this Narnia story, experienced great *REGRET* for his part in the event.

Aslan exchanged his life because Edmund had been a traitor and therefore was required to forfeit his life to the Evil Queen.

She gleefully accepts the offer to have the life of Aslan in place of Edmund. Later this will be cause for HER REGRET.

Back to Lucifer, and the story of Jesus, following the same plot, only with much deeper magic than that of Narnia. There is real supernatural truth in the second story. Instead of gaining the ultimate victory, Lucifer [who is also Satan of Judeo-Christian Bible] had sealed his own doom. The ultimate REGRET reference for the contest.

Jesus of Nazareth had created the death of death, and opened a door for new life and recovery of many things for the human race.

Lucifer had been an instrument of pain and death which only led to the greatest of victories--the Resurrection.

Back to the Christian reference, at the end of the crucifixion of Jesus, the soldiers slide a sword into his side to insure his death. This is when "BLOOD AND WATER FLOWED"...

The crucifixion scene was a time of terrible pain and REGRET for those who loved Jesus. The friend and disciple Peter, for example, had denied him. Most of the friends of Jesus were in hiding. His mother was there to witness this horrific event.

However, later this would become LUCIFER'S REGRET.

reference ** John 19:34...BLOOD AND WATER FLOWED

Mercy is your's...[link] ~ This is a link to a song with wonderful art and photography attached. Something very special to me.

When I painted this watercolor I had made a terrible mistake. I was trapped in an abusive marriage and cycle. It had been lost, and I found the painting the day before my birthday last year. [2009] ~ I have a broken back, neck and tailbone. But I'm free now, and whole in more ways than one.