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 When I have a picture in my mind, then I think for a while how I can put it on the canvas. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Thoughts are Things. What you hold in your mind as thoughts will eventually manifest itself as your reality. The following story is a great example. Now You Can Help People At 3 years old, Akiane (pronounced ahKEEahnah) had a dream......about God. And He told her to paint. “He said, ‘You have to do this, and I’ll help you. Now you can help people.’ I said, ‘Yes, I will.’ But I said it in different words in my mind. I speak through my mind to Him.” Sounds like something a cute 3 yr old might say, Many young children have dreams. But there was no religious influence in her home, at all. Akiane was home schooled, had no babysitters, and no television. Her father was a former Catholic, and her mother an atheist. “We didn’t pray together, there was no discussion about God, and we didn’t go to church. Then all of a sudden, Akiane was talking about God.” Born in 1994 to a Lithuanian homemaker and an American father, Akiane suffered from poor health as a child. While poor, the Kramarik family created their own fun making wreaths from flowers and pine needles from around the home, play dough from flour, and doll houses from cardboard boxes. At age four, Akiane began having visions of heaven. Because her parents were not religious people and Akiane was home schooled, they were initially very concerned about their young child. Yet they were certain that Akiane’s visions came from within, no outside influence was involved. “I was four when the visions first began,” said Akiane. “I had visions and dreams of being an artist and helping the whole world. I felt inspired to draw.” In the beginning, Akiane drew pictures of family members and pets, but her interests eventually shifted to the creation of faces. She started “scribbling” more and more faces. She tries to recreate visions that she says God gives her in her dreams. She does a pretty amazing job of recreating. Her paintings are sold for between $50,000 to $1,000,000. “We donate a portion to different charities. My goal is to help many poor children around the world.” When asked when she actually signs her paintings, Akiane replied, “Sometimes I sign twice. Before the painting and after. When I sign before, it gives me confidence, and it makes me imagine that the painting is already completed.” On Learning to Write “The words just come to me. I would say ideas somehow have been planted in me.” “I do not write from what I know, but from what the Spirit shows me. Before I pray, I am empty and have absolutely nothing to write about. But then I know, if I am silent, I start seeing pictures and words.” Today, Akiane, 13, gets up at 4 a.m. five to six days a week to get ready to paint in the studio and write poetry. She works for about 45 hours each day. She also speaks four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English and Sign Language. And even though young, she offers advice to other kids her age as well: “Work hard and believe that you can do it. Don’t say that you can’t do it; say, ‘I will do it!’”
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