Choosing art to bring on my trip for sharing. This series on Suffering has resonated with people I've met from around the world. I made these collages prompted by a conversation with a friend who was going through, as she called it, a trial by fire.
I can't explain it but I needed, at a soul level, to make these collages as an act of prayer for her. While creating I reflected on my own experience with suffering. Verses written by the collages are from Job & gave me hope on my own long journey.
It is amazing how these abstract pictures communicate experience and hope cross-culturally.
Yes, I will tuck SUFFERING into my suitcase too.
Job 23:8-10
But if I go to the east,
He is not there;
If I go to the west,
I do not find Him;
When He is at work in the north,
I do not see Him
When He turns to the south,
I catch no glimpse of Him.
But He knows the way I take;
When He has tested me,
I will come forth as gold.
Top to bottom:
Suffering (cover)
The God Who Is There
Where Are You God?
Furnace of Belief
Emerging Golden
