It's been a little while, hasn't it? What with college work and NaNoWriMo, I can't spare much time for blogging (not that I ever dedicated much time to it before, anyway...)
This does not mean that stuff hasn't been happening.
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This happened back in September.
My boyfriend and I went on a triple date with two of my girlfriends and their boyfriends, to a ceramics painting locale. I had not exactly thought about what I wanted to paint -- I wanted to see what was there first. I decided, since every time I had gone to paint ceramics before I had painted an animal, that this time I would paint a tile. But what would I paint on it?
So I thought for a while, and nothing came to me. Hannah had chosen to paint a mug, and she was not sure what to do either. It was simultaneous: we both prayed for inspiration, and He granted it to us at the exact same time!
It actually came to me in pieces as I went. God doesn't give us more than we can handle at one time, after all!
I tried to take a good picture; I had to use flash so that the colors would show up right. Sorry, guys. But here's what the tile ended up looking like:
(I should mention I did not do the shadows and highlights on the fire -- that was all Hannah.)
It currently lives propped against the back of my desk; I have no means to hang it up that I trust to keep it up. But it's gorgeous, and totally from God: I would NOT have come up with this image without His input.
I want to go again, and paint a tile for my roommate. She'll be going back to Japan after the semester is over. She spoils me rotten, and I have barely been able to do anything in return. I want to make sure she has something from me before she leaves!
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Back in October, well... Let's say I had been having a little trouble keeping the faith. I still went to True North every Wednesday, but other than that I had not been spending much time with Jesus. So, during worship, I asked God for a vision, since it had been a while. I just asked for something to prove to me that He was still there -- I knew he was there; I just needed a reminder. And he showed me a red vase with two white stripes going across it, across a vivid sky blue background (He knows I like sky blue, I guess!). And as I watched, a green bud grew up from the soil very quickly, like in those time-lapse videos you see of the sky changing from dawn to dusk. And it blossomed into this gorgeous pink tiger lily.
And He told me, "That's you."
I drew it when I got home (yes, I know now that lilies have six petals -- the one in my vision even had six petals, so I don't know why I drew five):
(If you can't read the verse, it's Song of Songs 2:2)
I started coloring it Photoshop, but I'm not finished yet, obviously.
I looked up symbolism for the tiger lily, and it's for wealth and pride. One source had it as symbolizing femininity, but it was just the one. Pink can be for being romanced/pursued out of love by the Lord. Cool, yes?
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I had been kinda low for a few days (bit of a ripple with the boyfriend -- bound to happen), and I'd gone to prophetic hearings that were happening at my church on a Tuesday night, because more than anything I needed to get away. I came kinda late in it, and I was in the back, just sitting, not entirely paying attention, and thinking.
God put this in my heart to do, and while it may seem strange to think that it made me feel better, it made me feel better nonetheless:
I don't know if that's an actual verse that I wrote on my hand, but it's something that He put in my heart to write, so I did it. (It says: And so My beloved looked upon My cross / And she knew Me."
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This happened this past Wednesday. I'd been having a bit of a rough week (I seem to get a lot of those) and I was feeling kinda low again. During worship, they played a song with the lyrics, "Only You are worthy."
And I sat at some point during the song, and one time as the chorus played, "Only You are worthy," I started asking, "Am I worthy? Am I worthy of You?"
And He said, "Of course you are." And He showed me a white bird, as if I had been watching it fly overhead; just this huge white bird. And the first thing that popped into my head was "albatross."
"Albatross?" I wondered, thinking of the bird. "I think I'd prefer if it were a swan."
"No," He said, "It's an albatross."
"Okay, okay, it's an albatross. So what does that mean?"
And I recalled the meaning of the albatross, specifically as told in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and how the albatross was a symbol of good luck at sea.
Ahh...
And God said, "You are My good-luck charm. That's how worthy you are."
What a Word! I'm still reeling from it!
(Hopefully this vision doesn't also mean I'll get shot with an arrow... Haha!)
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That's all for now, folks. He's always there, and He's always watching you, and He has plans for you all like you would not believe!
Jeremiah 29:11, guys!
♥Sarah
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