How Many Watermelons? Original Painting

20" x 20" Original Painting by Jason Kotecki. Oil on canvas, made with professional quality archival grade art materials. Comes finished in a matte black floater frame with a hanging wire. 

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The Story

Motivational posters, charismatic preachers, and embroidered pillows tell us to count our blessings. We’d probably admit that it would take a long time to count all our blessings. Maybe even longer than it would take to count all the seeds in a watermelon. But theoretically, it could be done.

This painting was inspired by the saying, “Anyone can count the number of seeds in a watermelon, but only God can count the number of watermelons in a seed.”

One summer a terrible storm wiped out all the trees in our wooded backyard. The destruction plunged us into debt and delivered trauma, uncertainty, and anxiety to our family. It did not feel like a blessing.

But it was a seed. It was a seed that produced many blessings that we are still revealing themselves to this day.

The storm was a seed that produced a multitude of watermelons. And those watermelons are filled with seeds that will usher forth even more.

Only God knows all the things that will be made possible because of a brief moment in time when a hurricane-force straight-line wind whooshed through our life one summer day.

Only God knows the number of watermelons in a seed.