Hello fifth week of Lent, I am not so happy to see you. Quite frankly, I am getting pretty frustrated with this art piece. I loved the way this art piece was turning out…
and then God told me to take away from it… UGH. Why, God, why?
Sunday we were called deeper into relationship with God. Rev. Bob reflected on two ways of knowing God:
1. knowing of God through ritual.
2. knowing God through experience.
Just when we think we know God, God tells us otherwise.
Just when I thought I knew this painting, God told me otherwise.
Reactively, I wrestled with this new information of what God wanted me to do with the artwork. “I don’t want to add white and cover up all the beautiful work I have already done,” I thought.
Immediately I felt like not knowing God invalidated our relationship up until that point. I sat in the belief that all the colors and textures I added to the artwork were counted as losses as I felt called to add the white on top.
This new relationship with the artwork (and with God) felt like it negated and minimized the old way of being.
But does God really work that way? Asking for a friend…
So Sardis Friends I call us into a deeper time of reflection this week. Ponder with me:
1) In what ways is the old way of knowing God beautiful and meaningful?
2) In what ways are the new ways of knowing and experiencing God beautiful and meaningful?
3) How can I better know and experience God?
