20x16 in Acrylics
Chronic Pain Survival by Matt Williams. I hope to be an inspiration to anyone who stuggles with daily life.. Those who suffer from Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Depression, and Invisible Disabilities just to name a few. Healing comes in stages, as I hope to express in my this blog. If you would like to check out my words in paint then visit https://www.chronicpainart.com
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Monday, July 31, 2017
It's been awhile!
It's been awhile... I haven't been painting much. Medical issues and life in general. So I got inspired a few days ago seeing this painting and found myself wanting to try my hand at painting it, and do some abstract cityscape. It was relaxing and I really enjoyed painting it!. Enjoy! God Bless. MW 16x20 Acrylic, most using pallet knife.
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Some encouragement
It has been a very challenging last few weeks, which is why I haven't posted. If you would, I humbly ask for your prayers. Lots of changes in my life and my only focus is to do Gods will for my life and my direction. I just wanted to share a few passages of scripture that I believe with all my heart. I have been blessed beyond my means spirituality and also by my healing of this body that has been physically and mentally broken for the last 26 years and the therapy of Art as a way of expressing my emotions and feelings. My kids are healthy and my second grandchild, my grandson will have a little sister to protect. I am a blessed man only by the grace of god. Yes, I am preaching today! I am a sinner just like anyone who reads this, but everyday I am forgiven and good lord willing I wake up and say THANK YOU JESUS! I am surely not ashamed of my faith in Jesus Christ!
Lastly....Yesterday is gone and to be forgotten. Let it go....move forward, one step, one hour, one day at a time. Forgive and make the most out of everyday! Your missing out on people to love and support you, and to give you peace. Don't say your not ready or their yet because tomorrow is not promised....live for today!
God Bless and take a couple of minutes to read what gods word has to say....Galatians 5:13-26
Life by the Spirit
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b]
15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness
23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
New Title
It is truly amazing how God works. I pray before each painting that I do, and if I don't have a title I just let god handle it. I had titled this painting "new life", but after my morning bible study, it was revealed to me that I rename this painting to "Hope".
Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease (in this one Verse, we are told that even if man does fall on hard times, if he will believe God, the fallen tree can sprout and grow again). Isn't it awesome to see how God gives us things or thoughts that we don't truly understand and then the true meaning is revealed. #blessed God Bless!
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Divorce - A Traumatic Event - Learn to Survive
I only share this because I am a survivor of divorce. It is so different now. Days seem like weeks and weeks like months. When you see your kids you feel like strangers. Everything changes. It hurts and I hope that today this message will help someone out there who is suffering....
It’s pretty natural to expect hurt when a spouse ask you to leave, but I was in no way prepared for the level of hurt or the level of pain I felt.
The pain of divorce is much deeper and more soul wrenching than most people can imagine, unless they have been through it themselves. Each divorce is different, never is one divorce exactly like another. One couple may last a year while others may be getting divorced instead of celebrating their Silver 25th Wedding anniversary, which is my story. I have kids, others don't. So each divorce is not the same, but we each experience the same feelings and emotions, just more of one than another. Divorce can mean the end of your hopes and dreams, the end of your life as you have known it, a loss of control, and feelings of rejection, loneliness, abandonment and blame. There is anger, depression, helplessness, bitterness, resentment, anxiety, pain, feelings of worthlessness, and guilt. The list goes on and on. It feels like death, yet your family is right down the road living life as if you never existed.
You will not be able to “hurry up and get over it.” That is not possible. I don't care what anyone else says, unless you are not human, you have feelings. To start the healing process we must make a commitment to take a small step forward every day. I know if your are experiencing divorce or any other struggle in life you feel like a million piece puzzle scattered on the floor, some pieces are lost forever and your puzzle will never be the same, but God will put the pieces back together if you have faith! The pieces that I don’t have anymore, the larger pieces that were the bond between my wife are gone forever. God is blessing me for living his will for my life. The blessing came in the form of therapy. God allowed me to paint out my emotions and feelings. He shed them from me and now they sit on a canvass. Ready to bless someone else who is struggling. A ministry for me, a way to live for him and share his awesome power to heal! I am a work in progress! I begin each day, waking up with god and knowing he has cloaked me with his armor to defeat satans attempts to ruin my day. I know that he has filled me with the Holy Spirit all day and all night because I give myself to him for his will to be done.
“I cry to you, O LORD; I say, ‘You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.’ Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me” (Psalm 142:5-6)
Quick Prayer
Father, I pray for all who are suffering right now. The intensity of my emotions is unbearable at times when Satan is trying to attack. Hold me in Your strong arms. Fill me with the Holy Spirit to protect and bless me this day. We do not know if there will be a tomorrow, only you know this, and I ask for your blessings today. Comfort me with the comfort that only comes from you lord. Guide me in taking one day at a time. God Bless. MW
The painting below is titled
"Lonely Road of Faith" - oil on wood
12" x 16" - original painting by Matt Williams #61
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Survive today - poem by Matt Williams
Survival
He sits up in bed from what little sleep he's had
Because he is stiff and his backs aching bad
His everyday pain is still there and kicking
He has to get up, and he has to start living
He struggles and tosses to roll out of bed
As soon as he up the pain has spread
He catches his breath and stands up tall
I can do this, he says, god won't let me fall
The kids are waiting in the other room
He puts on a grin and hides his gloom
The more he moves
the burning sets in
But when in front of the family
he grits it and grins
Everyday is a battle with emotions and pain
Can you imagine every day if it rained?
The rain may slow down but it doesn't stop
At least you can see rain, because my pain you cannot
Exhausted and hurting, A single tear falls
No one even cares that I just hit the wall
The pain is extreme
He smiles at his family, while inside he screams
Does anyone see his pain and despair?
No, they don't believe that it's really there.
So he drives and does more things than he should
The pain, anxiety and depression only compounds his feelings of being no good.
He gives his family all that he has
It's never enough, he's such a drag
All the things that WE we want to do
We can't do because of you
You tell them to go and to please have fun
Don't worry bout me, my body is done
So they leave you behind
At home all alone
It only takes minutes before the tears start to flow
the pain is still there, it won't let me go.
Now the tears flow non-stop because of the pain
Alone and aching nonstop like the rain
He will fight and survive with all that he is
A human, a person, someone with feelings.
To be not loved is worse than the pain
Forever he'll fight, even for a small gain
He will fight for his family till the day of his death
With all that he his till he draws his last breath
You threw me out like an old pair of shoes, but
I am a child of god and I will always love you.
MW
Monday, June 19, 2017
Tomorrow's Goals
So before I go to sleep now I make a list of goals I knowingly can accomplish. I thought I would share a few things that are gonna change here on the blog. As I get ready to move all my paintings I am going to make sure they have a signature, date, title and is marked original. I will take photos as I do and will post them and explain to you what I was feeling painting each piece! Healing as I have said before comes in stages and we all have our own length of time for certain healing! But with gods help all things are possible! So I will start sharing my art and the stories behind them. One a day maybe, might skip a day and make up with 2 for that day! My main goal is to hopefully have painted something that relates to you and that you are not alone in any battle! God Bless! MW
New Title: "War" The battle inside your head when Anxiety and Depression fight each other head on!
"War"
Acrylic
12" x 9"
Here is a smaller piece I did a while back and left it untitled.
So this painting is about when your depression and your anxiety are going at the same time. It's like two stallions fighting in the field with equal strength. Those that suffer from just one of those conditions is bad, imagine having a double dose if you will. I wanted to show the impact on life and how hard we have to fight these feelings that plague us all the time? So I will name this one "War"
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Surviving
Happy Father's Day, I pray you have a blessed day!
I wanted to share with you a painting I just finished.
Title: New Life - 20" x 16"
I believe a tree is one of gods most favorite things he put on this earth. He filled the world with them! He made each tree unique in every way, every tree being a different shape and size. Some survive and some die at all stages of a trees life. Some get disease, trees have roots that spread and grow new trees. All trees have bark on them to protect them. A strong tree that grows big and tall is a great candidate to be used later in life.
We as humans are no different. In this painting I used the tree as an example of something that was big and strong as it sat atop the mountain. But because of human nature this tree was cut down and used for some type of human use... we as humans get cut down in life, some our fault and some not.
In this painting you see that just because that tree was cut down, it did not die. It was tragically damaged but it lived. Two years later you see the new, tender, vulnerable sapling that is occurring in gods time. It will take years for this small sapling to be as big as he was at one time, but in gods time the tree will grow big and strong once again. As a believer I relate the trees bark as the Holy Spirit / God protecting us. Sometimes in life we get cut down, but if we stay strong and survive at all costs, the result is a NEW YOU being created. A fresh, new you! Remember that you are fragile, tender, healing and still growing. No doubt there are days you see what once was your beautiful self cut down to a stump, cut all the way down as far as you could be cut, but able to survive. Your bark is new and strong and will open each new branch and grow if you let him! You will be blessed with many leaves! Growing in gods time.
I pray blessings to you and your family and I hope you like the painting " New Life ". Hopefully, maybe you can relate in your own special individual way!
God Bless...MW
Friday, May 19, 2017
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
A Prayer: How I Start My Day.
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Some new artwork by Matt Williams! Let me know what you think! God Bless!
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Art by Matt Williams
Here are a few new paintings... I finished a couple of them I started over a month ago... I hope you enjoy! God Bless
Above is "When Two Worlds Collide: Living with Anxiety and Depression
Above is "Mother's Day"
Above is "Montana"
Thank you for checking out my new paintings... Haven't even posted on website yet so you got the exclusive HERE! Chronic Pain Survival! Learning to live one day at a time!
God Bless,
Matt
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Hope everyone is doing well! If you have time, would you take a minute and please leave me a review for my Blog? Thank you and God Bless!
Chronic Pain Survival is Sponsored by Art by Matt Williams
Hello to All,
I just wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing? Everything is really starting to fall in place for me as I have said many times, because I choose to follow Gods path...People ask me, how do you follow his path and I say its easy.. the bible.. there is every answer, to every question you might have. But most of all, you must have faith that what you are reading is the truth and nothing but the truth. So me, just a regular guy, with regular life issues like everyone else. Surviving one day at a time on faith!
I choose to let god show me the way. He puts things in my head and sometimes, well, a lot of the time, I do not understand what he is trying to tell me. So let me share what my process is. I start doing something associated with what I feel God is telling me to do and or try, and I will try it. I may try two or 3 times. Sometimes it runs smooth as silk and other times there is a speed bump every 5 steps and I trip. The great thing is, if you have patience, which was one of my great downfalls ( I always wanted to do it now and be done), God will allow the things to happen in his time and the way he wants it done. I believe as long as we are living with him along our side, things happen that are good and make you feel good and happy.
I don't care if its relationships, illness, healing, or whatever your case may be. Patience... Its all in Gods time. I suffered from Chronic Pain, Migraine Headaches, Chronic Back Pain, PTSD, Depression and Anxiety and now what is considered Fibromyalgia (Nerve Disorder) for over 25 years before I got relief. That is more than half my life! My point is that it is NOT in our hands, unless we choose to go down the wrong path. How do you know what the wrong path is? Things don't work, relationships do not work, illness happens, things don't go as you (key word you) thought. Gods will is not the same as our will, my personal opinion. We are of human nature and God is God! God of all things past, present and future!
So now when I try something and I feel I am going in the right direction, I try to stay on course as best as I can everyday. Don't steer away from God just because something good happened and you thought it was all you! Could be God dangling a carrot there for you to have a taste of what being blessed feels like!
When something you did months ago is just sitting there doing nothing but counting the days. THAT'S OK! Let it sit and if you mess with it every now and again, you will see very fast if its Gods time yet or not. If what you do goes good and you feel like it is pleasing unto god then stop and think about your original issue that God put you into. Good or Bad...
If you take the steps god puts in front of you and don't stray away, I believe god blesses your stewardship and patience to follow his will. His will can bless you or I believe God will allow things to happen that are not in his will (Don't Blame God). It may not be you, that he allows something to happen to, but maybe its your best friend or a family member, destroys a family or maybe a complete stranger! Maybe god is telling you something if its a bad issue, maybe its because your not living in his will or haven't asked for forgiveness for past actions. When stuff happens now, I immediately ask god for forgiveness of anything I may have done to offend him! Just like I would never disrespect my earthly father.
Something I do is google bible versus that relate to the issues you are facing ( Good times and bad!)! So many people never think about just saying thank you Jesus and mean it! If life is good and you are blessed! I am so happy for you! My experience of mountaintops has been refreshing, built my confidence and has been revitalizing! Those days when everything went so smoothly and filled with nothing but happiness. Like the day my children were born healthy, the day my grandson was born. I think we have to remember those good times, when we were living right and being blessed! If you think you have never felt blessed about something, you are missing out! It is the most satisfying feeling!
Remember those good times because in times when things are not going so good, it will truly make you appreciate the good days! I have been to places in my head I wish no one to ever visit. Its dark, cold, lonely and painful. Maybe you are there now.
I know where you are and where you may have been. I am only speaking of my experiences and opinions, I hold no answers other than 1, that is Faith.
I realize there are some with little or no faith, but me personally, I believe and I do my best to live by it everyday and just share! What is so bad about having someone who is with you all the time and wants to help you? We are human, we sin everyday. Ok... We are all sinners! I am no better than one person who reads this. Probably in most cases I have twice as much past sin. Everyday I fail, but I learn and at the end of my day I know I am forgiven of my sins and if it is his will I will be here tomorrow and if I die, I wont go back to that dark place!
I will pray for you if you comment and request.
God is Great! God Bless and Thank you! I hope I have stirred some interest so you might respond and review my blog! I an new, yes, but I have years of experience in Chronic Pain Management, Divorce, Pain and Sufferings. Subscribe and Start Following Today!
I am sharing my healing on this blog. I'm trying so I'm Surviving! One Day AT A TIME!!!!
Sincerely,
Matt Williams
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Friday, May 5, 2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
Time for a Change:
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Forgotten- Art by Matt Williams
Forgotten is a painting of loneliness, depression and slowly dying... MW April 24, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Chronic Pain Matt Williams April, 23, 2017 |
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Speak to the Rock... Numbers 20:11
God is with us all the time.... he allows things to happen and yes causes things to happen I believe to either punish us for being out of his will or to get our eyes focused on him. To get our attention! Never blame god for anything that happens in your life." If you or when you do, I believe he shuts his ears off as would you when you hear something bad maybe towards you. In Numbers Moses and the Israelites had wondered the deserts for 40 years... it was by gods grace, he told Moses to strike the rock twice and water to flow to the people and their animals. Faith is the key... the cross is the key... in this painting.... God is the Rock, the staff is the cross in that time and the abundant water was the Holy Spirit. God Bless.... enjoy. MW
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Live Interview
Well, could use a prayer or 10! Doing my very first interview in my life! If you would like to listen in at 9 pm, in a hour then please just visit my website and listen in! https://www.chronicpainart.com/radio-listen
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Reproductions Now Available at www.chronicpainart.com
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Chronic Pain Survival
Friday, March 31, 2017
Good Morning!
I'm sorry that I am behind on my blog, but I have been painting, working on the website and then family activities....anyway, I don't have much else going on, but I would like your opinion on my paintings and pick two for me to enter in an artist magazine contest! Thank you for all the support and hope! It is healing for me as well to hear your stories. God Bless and here are a few new photos. You can also go to Pinterest @ http://pin.it/hP6ZZko or my website www.chronicpainart.com thanks again for all the views and comments. Well it's only letting me post 1 so visit the links to see more...
Monday, March 20, 2017
Time Heals Nothing.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Did I mention how much I hate time change?
I hope everyone had a great weekend and for those on Spring Break, enjoy.... these days it seems everyone has to go somewhere and has to do something.. Why? Why cant people just learn to relax and enjoy life vs. going all the time. Time... Did I mention how much I hate this useless thing called time change? Its spring forward... leave it there, people don't live by the sun anymore, they live by the hours....anyway, I have 3 paintings left before I complete my first collection of 21 paintings titled "Chronic Pain" I will upload a painting I finished up yesterday later today! God Bless and I am going to B.E.D.
#chronic pain, #PTSD, #anxiety
MW
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Monday, March 6, 2017
Sitting by the fire....
Selfie
The Root of All Pain is Love and Happiness
You Cannot See How I Feel
Chronic Pain Art
New Pieces.. sorry phone photo quality doesn't really do these justice.
20x16 in Acrylics
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God is with us all the time.... he allows things to happen and yes causes things to happen I believe to either punish us for being out of hi...
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Happy Father's Day, I pray you have a blessed day! I wanted to share with you a painting I just finished. Title: New Life - 20"...