Making Divine Images Visable

Have you noticed that many of the Psalms recite the history of the people of Israel? These hymns were used to remind the people of God’s action in their lives. Some of these Psalms are: 78, 105, 106, 114 and there are others.

I was challenged to write my own Praise History and to reread it often. I have found this to be a rich experience and I recommend it to you.

Here’s mine. What would yours be like?

For a long time I’ve been trying to figure out how to use painting and/or drawing to tell my story and the story of God’s action in my life. Here is a new way that I have done this recently.

If you have an audience and a large dry erase board, I have markers! Maybe we should get together.

(Note there where I wrote “Psalm 16:9″ I should have written “Proverbs 16:9.”)

Writing a personal version of the 23rd Psalm was assigned in Week Three of Disciple’s Prayer Life, a study many of us at First Baptist Church in College Station, Texas are doing this spring of 2010. T.W. Hunt who wrote the study guide was a seminary professor. His example begins, “The Lord is My Professor.” I have found the process of writing my own to be rich and fascinating. I recommend it to you.

David had been a shepherd so when he wrote about God he used imagery he knew. This week I was challenged to use the format of the 23rd Psalm and write a version using a title meaningful to me. I wrote more than one but here is “The Lord is my Master Artist.” How would you do this assignment to make it fit your life?

At a crisis time in my life I attended a Women’s Retreat at Trinity Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. My mother had recently died and my son, Lew, was declining. The retreat leader (whose name I am sorry I don’t recall), gave us each a paper with a simple drawing of a flower, a circle in the middle and petals radiating out. We were asked to write a life crisis we had experienced in the middle and then write on the petals things we had learned from that time of crisis and growth. These were my comments.

A Canadian friend wrote me a day or two after 9/11 and asked me what I was thinking about the terrorist attacks. Here is my reply written 9/16/2001.