For the One Never Left Behind

Read Part 1 - He Stands When All Bow

Introduction (Part II)

Some works are meant to stand alone.
Others are meant to be followed.

For the One Never Left Behind was created as the continuation of He Stands When All Bow. Where the first work explores authority received through obedience, judgment, and covenant, this piece asks a different question: what is that authority for?

In sacred patterns, covenant is never the conclusion. It is the turning point—the moment where power, once aligned, is sent back outward in service. This work begins where the first ends.

For the One Never Left Behind

The grace of every movement is aligned with sacred pattern. In this case, it's two.

The first is inward.
The second is outward.

He Stands When All Bow represents the inward symphony of events that dot the path in the establishment of authority through obedience, judgment, and covenant. That work resolves in stillness. Authority is aligned, clarified, and received.

But covenant is never the destination. It is the commission and the rock of stewardship on which we all begin.

For the One Never Left Behind is a pay it forward exchange after the precious cargo of truth has been entrusted to each of us who carry that authority back into the world. It's a key change, a new tempo to follow. Stillness gives way to movement. The bison, having undergone a profound change will seek out the calf and walk with strength which is no longer solitary. Not as diminished power, but as power rightly spent.

Where the path causes even the calf to stumble, it is not counted as weakness but the potentiality of fulfillment. Stewardship steps up and wanders in a field of responsibility. Here, authority proves itself through strength, not to command, but to carry. It represents the one who must be protected, sought after, and borne forward once order has been established.

Both works are Color Chorded to So Will I (100 Billion X) - Hillsong. The song begins with creation listening and ends with devotion that refuses to abandon the one. The paintings follow that same arc. Authority established. Authority exercised. Stillness before ascent. Movement after alignment.

Placed sequentially within the home—one at the landing of the stairs, the other down the hall—the works are meant to be experienced in order. One orients. The other sends.

Together, they describe a complete pattern:
power aligned inward, then poured outward.

Strength stands when all bow.
And then it goes—for the one never left behind.