Psalm 126:2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them."
Christa Rosier, Psalm 126 (diptych), Mixed media, 2008
Background
The left hand painting is empty, lonely and sad: central to this theme stands a woman dressed in tears. In the composition of the painting something is clearly missing. The woman sows into dry, infertile land. Cracks are visible in her surroundings and in her very being. This is a broken-hearted woman trying against all odds to bring forth good out of the desert of her life.
What does she sow? Faith? Hope? Thankfulness to God, despite all? If this was the only picture it would portrait a bleak, hopeless existence. Praise God, there is and will be more! On the second canvas is shown God bringing the miracle of growth and resulting fruit to a barren land. Though the cracks are still visible, the young man holds in his arm the proof of a harvest sown in tears. About to face the Eternal One his mouth is now turned in laughter and the sheaf he presents shows no signs of the former brokenness.
The fruit of faith is perfect and whole.