About this blog:

Years ago, my sister and I went to see the Darjeeling Limited in theater. Afterwards, we were talking about the movie and about our love for creating art. We shared a similar problem: we put our art last to the business of our lives and thus hardly ever made time to create anything. My sister suggested that we make a commitment to create a piece of art every week. She jokingly said "Can we agree to that?" in reference to the line Owen Wilson used repeatedly in the movie.
Although I tried at first to stick to our commitment, I've lapsed into not making time to create. I'm hoping this blog will help me rededicate time to that purpose.

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

An Old Drawing 8/27/11

I've been reminded lately of the weight of sin and the darkness of our hearts.  I was thinking of a drawing I did for Ezekiel 36 a couple of years ago.  The passage says: "For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.  I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.  And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws."

I have this image of a heart surgery when I read passages like these.  Something that is drastic, perhaps painful, but necessary.  Also, God says "I will" repeatedly... it is him, not us, who does the replacing of the heart of stone with a heart of flesh.  Perhaps this is an ongoing process... we need God to continue to change our hearts from stone to flesh.
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