Welcome to Hillside's worship blog, a place where hopefully our community can share thoughts and ideas about how God is moving in our worship of Him!
To begin, here's the painting we created as a community in our three services yesterday, June 24. Everyone was invited to make one brush stroke on the canvas, each unique brushstroke making a contribution to the picture of our community at worship.
Let's try this - take a look at the painting, and comment below with your interpretations, thoughts, etc. Let's see if God is saying something to you, and by extension, to all of us, through what we created yesterday.
Specifically -
- What does this painting say to you about the concept of community?
- Do you see specific symbols or metaphors that we created (either intentionally or unitentionally)?
5 comments:
I just looked at it and saw a few hidden things that showed community with the question mark right down the middle, asking the questions of life and the what or where the answers may be.. The question mark is right in the middle with a darker line next to it separating a wandering life that is bound with chains, seemingly going down and out of control, all happening to the right of the line. But the question mark covers over the top of the darker dividing line and becomes a dove in flight, set free by the three crosses to the left of the dividing line with all things seemingly pointing up to heaven along with a bold arrow pointing up to the cross and the heavens.
Jesus is the answer for the world today, above him there is no other, Jesus is the way.
Thoughts on community? Well, when you're limited to one brush stroke on a community painting, your creativity is immediately challenged. It seems to me there are two obvious approaches: my stroke can be part of something that other community members help to complete (such as the parts of the crosses); or it can be one complete thing that fits in to what the community is trying to do together (such as the fish, the bird, the serpent(?), all of which symbolize concepts related to our community's effort to worship God with this painting).
I also see various levels of that key community ingredient, communication. I see instances of teamwork, where contributors have articulated work steps to one another. I see individual contributions, where the artist implies cooperation with the goals of the group. And I see chaos, where various contributors made their indiviualistic entry without regard for the entries of other contributors.
May God bless this work, and teach us to communicate through this lesson.
GREAT thoughts so far - keep it up!
I awoke abruptly at 3 A.M. and began thinking about the painting.......The long upward strokes remind me of incense rising, and I think of Zechariah in the temple with Gabriel, Luke 1:11, and the wondrous mysteries and miracles of God. The interlocking circles symbolize two believers coming alongside an empty, non believer. The vertical blue line, with the ribbon of tan gracefully connecting, gives me the vision of a face and hand raised to God in an adoring worship dance. The birds, fish, heart, and crosses remain distinct ageless symbols of God’s love, grace, promises, and Christ’s sacrifice.
The general sprinkling of dark paint, not that it was intentional, for me signifies Satan lurking in our midst, and our messiness as Mae would say. The tan cross I painted below the bottom circle, has transformed into a Jack-O-Lantern face. It reminds me of mockery, Jesus being taunted on the cross. This was a great experience in community and I look forward to other members sharing. Dr. Larry, Marty-mom, Scotty and AA, Brad, and Fearless Leader Brian, it’s your turn. Tom, enjoyed your interpretaions. Peace be with you, Karol Coyne
After gazing at the painting, I see many different colored wavy lines :)
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