I don’t need to be presumptuous to realize that I did a lot. But nothing was so good as having sons. I mean, “son” is the name that most families give to someone new that comes to their lives as a fruit of their union (even if he is adopted, he is a son). To us, what God gave us deserved a new classification. The of year 1985 was on of the most remarkables to me, when we composed the first of our best works: Matheus Felipe Inácio Santos and soon after, in 1986, came Lucas Henrique Inácio Santos. In the photography below, in which the three of us are together I joked and goton the tip of my toes, but they are actually bigger and better than me.
Sometimes we produce works that make the ones that see it just spark with joy. However, there are moments that we are not the makers, but the appreciators of bigger blessing, coming from other hands. Here I repeat the words of her father “in september the seventeenth of 2017, at 3:25 pm, Melissa Lidório Baltar Inácio came to the world! Weighting 2,94 kilos, singing at full-throat and bringing joy to all at the hospital!” That’s right, Matheus and Débora made an artwork and now Ranuzia and I are grandparents. I can’t wait the time when she is grown up so that we can shot movies together. Our film company already has even a name.
Life is not a dream, and everything goes by so fast. I look back and get surprised seeing how much I have imagined and how much of it God has brought to life. Without being presumptuous of being falsely humble, here there was a summary of all I did in these 57 years. There’s still a lot that I want to do, but I know that it is God that writes my path. If I manage to do all that I want, great. If not, no problem, my future will be even better. I see in all things how He is good and how everything was worth. If after all you didn’t understand who I am, the lyrics to this song say who I am completely.
The tapestry
(Stênio Marcius)
Tapestry maker, great artist
Does his work
Unstoppable, patient, in his loom
Tapestry maker, doesn’t get confused
He knows the end since the beginning
Weave the fabric, countless paths
Always knowing where he is
My life is a work of tapestry
Woven by bright and live colours
That contrast with those
Foggy and sad ones
If you look from the other side
Can’t imagine how it will end
But at the end
Everything has an explanation
Everything has a place
Everything work together for my good
When seen from the right side
The heart already lifts up
A work of art for the honty and glory
Of the artist
When seen from the right side
All colours of my life
Glorify Jesus Christ
The tapestry artist
[Translation by Arthur Guanaes]
