Photo by: Hollye Schumacher
I love this picture of the dark door verses the slightly ajar door with the light shining through. The image itself alludes to the idea of the unknown. Bought at a Donor Life Exhibit about 2 years ago the photo hangs in my bedroom.
"The meaning behind the doorway are many. For one, it is a optimistic symbol for the life benefiting opportunities that organ and tissue donation can afford. The ray of light ready to take over the dark corners of the room implies an abundant amount of hope and altruistic goodness that pours through the hearts of organ recipients and donors."
The long waiting lists and unknown outcomes of surgery often leave organ recipients in a fragile balance between untimely death and a healthier prolonged life. This precious balance between light and dark is so intensly related to the emotional life or death experience that organ donors and recipients face. I believe it was the artists goal to share the hope of the opening door into the light that so symbolically represents hope and love on the other side. That is what stirred my emotion when I bought it.
"Waiting to Die, Wanting to Live" is a story of the contrasted struggle between good and bad and gives one a sense of renewed hope that reflects the journey that recipients and donors face. It shared the image of hope for the outcomes of that uncertainty.
For the vision is yet for an apppointed time and it hastens to the end: it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day. Hab 2:3
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