As I was reading in Ezekiel* this morning I was once again moved by God’s desire to give us visuals of and for Him; His creativity used to design forms (Temples) with marvelous materials and adorn them with such sincere precision, exacting angels and then allow humans the joy of making them. His additions of flowing organics filled with life-giving beauty and living food just underscored His desire for collaboration. He has such a desire for material witness.
Most art is a material witness to the glory of our sense impressions. An artist is born with a heightened awareness of our senses, what we see and hear, smell and taste, and the glories of what we feel. Added to this is a heightened sense of knowing, our soul and hearts response to what our senses are receiving; the actual spiritual nature of the physical feelings we have inside in response to this information and we are like the Bible describes, ‘our hearts burn within us, our bones cannot contain it, it is like living water welling up inside us pouring forth’** in creative acts. In and through our Lord, Christ Jesus, this often becomes a sincere act of worship as we experience the joy of thanksgiving to all the myriad ecstasies our senses are transmitting to us of our King’s creativity.
*Ezekiel 42-47,**Luke 24:32, Jeremiah 20:9, John 4:14
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| Love Hurts II being installed at Fair Haven |
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