Hello John, 


i came across your site. I'm still moved by your work, especially the one of Jesus holding a baby... this one really brings tears into my eyes because my husband lost 2 daughters at birth. Even as a minister's wife and missionary, I've been quite "shocked" and very emotionally challenged by this... even 1 year 1/2 after... still wondering why, but seeing that painting just give me so much peace. Peace I was asking god for since God took them away from us... just to see that picture of Jesus holding the baby... what can i say... you gave me what my mother's heart needed and i Thank you... Your work is a answer to prayer for me.. it really gave me peace. A mother's heart who sees her child in God's arms....


Lisa in Canada 
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Dear Mr.. Katerberg,


Enclosed is parts of my journal entry of the day I saw your painting at church...


As I stood in front of the painting "His Right to Life", I read the verse- Jerm 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born I set you apart.." I saw Jesus gently cradling a baby, looking lovingly and intently at her with a tear on His cheek. Where were you God, when I was formed in my mother's womb? Did you turn your back on me at those moments that my birth defects occurred? Why didn't you make me "normal"? These questions I have wrestled with for as long as I can remember!! and they have remained unanswered... and it hurt, secretly and quietly, but it was there. This morning I did not receive the answer to those questions but a release and a peace washed gently over me. As the tears came and I cried. It was not longer a picture of Jesus and a baby - it was Jesus and Me. The verse Jerm. 29:11-13 came to mind, "For I know the pans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future----" Jesus knew!! He knew before I was formed and born. He knew what I would face. The tenderness in his eyes and the tear on his cheek tell me so!! and finally, finally that is enough for me. For the first time in my life I can accept and thank God for creating me just as I am.


Touched and healed by a piece of artwork.


Thank you so very much!


Dolly