The beauty of Art!

I told my high school art teacher I hated art. On Friday I was driving back home and I actually made a point to look at the murals on the wall of the buildings. I couldn't help but notice what I usually am to busy to pay attention to. Then it hit me, art is beautiful, like music is speaks a story! A lot goes into a masterpiece and we are no different.

There may be darker strokes in the canvas of our lives but when we look over the canvas of our lives we are going to see so many beautiful moments too! Our marriage, our kiddos, our calling, the times we loved so deeply and cried out to Jesus so desperately. We are going to see it all as will Jesus. Nothing we have ever said or done will be hidden and finally the question in all of our hearts will be answered will he still love me? Does a potter love his pottery less if there are cracks, dents, deformities to their piece? That's what we are and that is who HE is! In Japan they spend extra time filling in the cracked pottery with Gold!

To Jesus we are the broken pottery and HE is the gold that holds us together not just the glue! Do you see how beautiful that is?? When we just want someone to hold us together we have a Savior that does that and so much more! He adds value to us! He see us as worthy possessions to treat ever so delicately! Since writing this I believe I have found art to be another expression of how God expresses beauty! It's probably why I love taking pictures and videos so much! They tell a story and a beautiful one at that!!! I'm a visual learner if I see it I get it! As I was driving home Friday with Nathan in the car I made a point to point out butterflies or ask about the colors and then I caught the moment of joy it gave me!

I love to think about the people that touched that wall, I like to think about what their vision was as they began, I like to think and hope they prayed over their masterpiece, it's on display for all to see! There is a mural in Chippewa Falls that Zechariah's mom showed me as he was in South Dakota. It's of the band director and those that lost their lives in a bus crash. I like to think of the people who created this piece to have prayed over the families of the loved ones on the wall. I pray it has brought them comfort!

You see what I mean about art being beautiful! Music and art are the two things that connect to our souls! I'm sure this has happened to you before but you have a really bad morning you get in your car and all of a sudden the exact song you needed to hear plays in your radio and for a moment you get lost in the lyrics or music. Tears fall and you feel less alone! Art does that to artists but I am beginning to realize you don't have to be an art teacher to appreciate and love art!

I love you! The broken and cracked art you are someday all will be new and make sense but for now live in the glorious reality that you are broken and the only one that can put you back together and give you immense worth is Jesus!! Remember this on those very challenging and lonely days of your journey! Appreciate the process of being covered in Gold!

May you be blessed on this Sunday!

Love you with all my heart

Tina Martina Putney