Swept under the Carpet Directive #2 Pencil sketch

Thinking about imaging in dealing with present struggles is something that I will find pretty easy to do.  I have always been an avid user of idioms/metaphors to help get my message across.  And to make an image on paper is challenging in the sense of my limited art abilities, but satisfying in being able to show my inner thoughts with a little more gravity.  Because of my having been challenged in my inner "man" through the Art is a Way of Knowing  book, I have been able to work through, almost completely, a struggle that I have been dealing with on a small and large scale.  And that is the fact that I think all too often we "sweep" things "under the rug", rather than talk about them and get them resolved.  It's sad to think that so many relationships are jeopardized because of poor communication skills and poor mediation skills.  I was able to bring the metaphor of "sweeping things under the rug" up to someone in leadership in my life who I feel may be in a position to help.  I'm hoping they take note of my concern and do something proactive so that we don't "sweep things under" and ignore them, hoping they will go away,  as often.  Last Spring, I had been told by one of these leaders that they'd like to see more unity in our organization, and my response was that I felt good communication would definitely help that to happen.  A great quote that goes along with this metaphor would be something like:  "Eventually you will trip on whatever it is you swept under the rug".

If you see the very large hand holding the rug, that is because I have had to take my concerns to the All-Mighty and leave them in His hand.  If and when He ever tells me to own what I need to own regarding the "lump" under the rug, I want to do that, and take measures to resolve it.  But when He tells me that He will take care of it, I need to trust that in due time, He will take care of it.  I'm reminded oft' times of Joseph in the pit for many years because of the lies that had been told about him and because his own brothers didn't like him and had him sold off into slavery.  I have to remember how Joseph must have gone through a whole myriad of emotions in dealing with all of that, but how in the end, God used him mightily to save an entire nation.  His time of being in the"pit" humbled him.  And I have been humbled by how I have been treated by others. God sees/has seen it all and is working all things out together for my good.