I painted this on the 21st April, and wrote a short prayer in the middle of it; but doing the painting was the praying. This was just before I started submitting my coursework essays and getting into revision for my exams. And it's probably just because I didn't enjoy the stressing about deadlines and feeling unprepared and all the silly little hoops you have to jump through to make sure your essay fits the specification of what the assignment requires (I don't know anyone who does!), but I was feeling like, 'What am I even doing here?' Like, what's the point - just get on with your life; stop just learning, start doing!! As if somehow I "do" nothing while my brain is learning, or in the other parts of my life besides my course! But I was just struck (again) by a sheer not-knowing of purpose! Where was I heading? What did God want for my life?
And I painted this. Because the colours were so bright, and the water so everywhere, that I didn't know what patterns and shapes would end up when I began. I didn't really know what I was painting even, but it quickly started to take shape and I saw in it the many places I could go and the many ways I could get there, but the surety of one thing - that God would surprise me with marvels and wonders and beauty and goodness wherever I went! And so I knew, that wherever I was and wherever I would go, I would be walking and will walk with God. And I will "do" all that is before me to do! Amen.
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AuthorI'm a recent Cambridge Theology graduate now studying for a Masters in Biblical Studies and blogging about all sorts of things! I'm interested in faith, Church, theology, social action, the great outdoors and being creative, and all of those things - along with many more - come through in my posts!
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