Dawn's Yellow Light

“Joy comes in the morning.”  There is a certain peace that comes with dawn.  I do not know why but I do know it is true.  Because I know it is true I should meditate on the truth to gain wisdom from God.  It may be that it is a physical manifestation of a spiritual truth, light will always overcome darkness, and a single light cannot be extinguished by a world filled with darkness.  It also seems to be manifested in color, as if blacks were somehow endowed with brooding negativism and whites and brights were endowed with life and joy.  It is worth noting that these are universal feelings shared across cultures, beliefs, genders and races.  There are always reasons to find joy in God whether in dawn’s early light or lightly hued yellow.

How Art Is Thought Up

Can any art or any medium or material carry the weight and burden necessary to acknowledge God?  No.  But God has so endowed some material, stone and silk come to mind, with such creative sincerity that it seems His creation of them was purposefully done, in part, to allow humans to creatively confess Him.  The same can be said of humans, are we able?  We are as the Spirit guides as we learn from Bezalel.

List of materials that could possible carry the burden of confessing God.

Stone

Silk

Gold

Water

Certain woods

Dirt (What an interesting thought seeing as how the word as a adjective

is used to describe something negative.  This word may be only included because of my involvement in clay.  However clay is a specific kind of dirt and I believe that many kinds of dirt could be able to confess God.)

Salt

Many natural spices, herbs and aromatics

Carbon

Precious stones including all crystals

Peril

Cotton

Certain raw pigments, cobalt, iron

Are there man made materials?

Penicillin

Certain Glazes, celadon and maybe shino

This will be the concept for my next work of art.

Contact

I have just read in Job, God’s statement fleshing out Himself as I Am.  If we believe in The One and True God then these words are like Golden Set Diamonds.  An infinitesimally smaller analogy would be having The World Book of another civilization downloaded to us via The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (like in the movie Contact).

It is stunning to begin your day with "Contact" from God.

Rain Prayer

The rain falls on the frozen earth and rises back toward heaven in a quiet, cloaking mist like prayers shrouding my forest of sins from Him who has promised to cleanse me from all unrighteousness.

You can learn a lot about God standing on your back porch watching it rain.

The Big Bang Bust

So yesterday quantum physicists announced that the universe did not begin in some single event but that it has always been.  What concerns me is that now believers will try and weave God into this new theory much like they did the old one.  There will never be a way for humans to know how and why the universe is or did or did not begin.  We simply weren’t there!  I am fascinated by science and most fascinated by the science of the understanding of the universe.  I applaud scientist that dedicate their lives to understanding its mysteries and developing theories and equations to help firm up our understanding of where we exist.  I am awed by their genius and fascinated by their learned understandings.  However my God cannot fit in nor be a part of the universe.  He is a great mystery as Job found out when he tried to weave Him into his understanding of the universe.  God’s main point when addressing Job was, “Where were you when I made…?”  Job, like us, was simply not there. 

(For more on this and other subjects attend my slide lecture and show opening, Tuesday, February 17, 4:30 p.m. in A72 at Union University)

A Thank You Prayer In The Forest

Students see themselves.  They see paintings, sculptures and pots and speculate at what they can make.  Creatives see material.  They see paint, stone and clay and wonder what they can create.  Artists see forms, (full moons), lines, (a stream through a forest) colors, (night becoming day) and desperately seek ways to say, “Thank You!”

God, Thank You. amen

(For more on this and other subjects attend my slide lecture and show opening, Tuesday, February 17, 4:30 p.m. in A72 at Union University)

A Thank You prayer in my forest.