“I’m all alone because all my friends have died. I’m not doing anything because I don’t have anyone to do them with anymore. I’m just waiting to die.” I have a variation of this conversation every few weeks with my grandfather each time I come to visit him at my parent’s home, where he has […]
read on: Live Out Your Time as Foreigners →I keep having the goldfish dreams … it seems to be pressing on me, tugging at me, eating away at me. I have this sense that God is wanting me to go ahead and explore this composition, but I am not clear on the reason for this. I suppose that the journey is in the […]
read on: Release →The last few days I have been seeing this idea in my head over and over again. In my imagingings, I see a large goldfish gracefully swimming, swirling, and eventually encircling a woman wearing a long Qing Dynasty robe. I heard this sermon this past weekend on suffering which really spoke to me. It was […]
read on: Goldfish Dreams →This entire month I have been seriously moved by my experiences drumming and painting in the presence of God. I am preparing for a show in January at Bethlehem Lutheran Church and am somewhat stressed about this as I always am preparing for a show. I am also quite interested in the way these shows […]
read on: God, What Are You Up To? →Tonight as I write I have realized that my heart is in a new place. I am changing, and I think it is for the better. I brought drums to church again today. Whereas before people needed to be called up to play along with the worship team, this time, all the footed drums were […]
read on: My Heart is Changed →       Today I had something happen to me that I just felt I needed to write down. Maybe I am writing this down more for me than for anyone (I have no idea if people even read this blog) … … and I know this has been a blog […]
read on: Conviction →Â I have been truly touched by a fellow artist, Nicole France-Coe, whose work is presently in the Leep Art Gallery at the Postema Center on the Pine Rest campus where I work. Her work is about prayer, and has a sense of whimsical reverence to it. Bright colors, and mixes of photo clippings, beads, […]
read on: Mei Yun (Beautiful Grace) →I wrote this for the meeting of the Grand Rapids affiliate of Christians in the Visual Arts which we had last evening. This is the text of the small talk that I gave before we had a hand blessing for all the artists gathered at our monthly meeting.  ________________________________________________________________   A few words before we begin […]
read on: Blessing of the Hands: for GR CIVA →I have been struggling lately with depression. I see things at my job in the psychiatric hospital that have impacted me emotionally more than I let myself realize. Some people knew and prayed for me, but I have not been able to paint as much as I would have liked. I have started again, with […]
read on: New Work →Lately, I have found that once again I cannot sleep at night. Some people may wonder if it is insomnia, and to be honest, I don’t think that is the case. Often, I assume that it is quite possibly the only time that I am still enough to reflect on God, which is quite a […]
read on: God, what do you want? →