thinking about creating

Well, GOOD MORNING!! Can you believe it is January? Weatherman says 40˚ today… the morning sky is lovely and the roofs are frosty so maybe the spring bulbs and leaf buds won’t come out just yet. I plan to trim back my wintered-over geraniums and root some of them for more lipstick red plants this summer (my absolute fav color in geraniums). But that is tomorrow. Today, I want to finish making living and dining room curtains…maybe photos added tomorrow (she said hopefully)
This morning I was reading in Knowing God by J.I. Packer – I read it years ago in the late 70’s and it really impacted my thinking then. I am re-reading it and am struck anew with awe of Jesus. Packer comments on what the Apostle John wrote about Jesus in the first 18 verses of his gospel. It is so apropos for what I have been meditating on lately that I will share with you. Let me quote from chapter 5, titled “God Incarnate”:
“John…proceeds to tell us seven things about the divine Word. (i) ‘In the beginning was the Word’ (verse 1). Here is the Word’s eternity….(ii) ‘And the Word was with God’(verse 1) Here is the Word’s personality…(iii) ‘And the Word was God’ (verse 1). Here is the Word’s deity. …
and here is the part that really struck me:
(iv) ‘All things were made by Him’ (verse 3). Here is the Word creating. He was the Father’s agent in every act of making that the Father has ever performed. All that was made was made through Him…(v)’In Him was life’ (verse 4). Here is the Word animating. There is no physical life in the realm of created things save in and through Him…(vi) ‘And the life was the Light of men’ (verse 4). Here is the Word revealing. In giving life, He gives light too; that is to say every man receives intimations of God from the very fact of his being alive in God’s world, and this, no less than the fact that he is alive is due to the work of the Word. (vii) ‘And the Word became flesh’ (verse 14). Here is the Word incarnate. The baby in the manger at Bethlehem was none other than the eternal Word of God.”
Wow, can you get that our world, every aspect of what we see, our very life is a revelation of Jesus?! I could philosophize more on the interrelated aspects of light and color (whoa, there is a lot to ponder there !!) but maybe another day soon. Meanwhile, I am thinking that my very life today is part of God’s revelation of Himself to me. What a wonder!
It is now time to go back and finish those curtains…so I can start on a sketch and proposal to our church Worship Committee for a large piece of calligraphy and watercolor for the foyer. The walls there are so bare and my eye begs for something of significance to grace that empty space.
Off she goes to play with fabric 