Cathleen Strickland

Dignified Work - 2017

​Mother Teresa said that one first had to hurt to then feel true mercy for another. To be sick without health insurance, to lose work and struggle to feed children and keep a home, to be rejected, to feel invisible, to be lonely. It was God’s grace in my life to spend time in each of these circumstances so that now when I see another’s struggle, their hopelessness, their need to not be alone, I’m moved with pain, to pray, to give and to encourage. It was a natural path for me to want to join in the effort to make scholarships available to the migrant worker. As I researched for the painting, compassion grew for these people that toil so hard just to live and it’s my hope that this heart is reflected in the finished work.

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