The world needs the creative strokes of our artists, singers, poets, and writers because their works express identity, beauty and meaning. Sometimes they pose questions and convey both the longing and lost-ness of mankind estranged from God.

Art tells me God is real. Because all our art expresses either a longing for something more, or a lost-ness apart from God.

God's irrevocable gift to us is our heart-mind-soul desire to create, imagine, invent, and express, in colours, shades, tones, words. We create because He created. Symphonies and poems, songs and murals, architecture and novels, show me this world is not a cosmic accident.

Those who find true freedom of expression find it in God's boundless love. Without Him, all my music and art is chasing of the wind, sound and fury, fleeting happiness and deathly melancholy. Without Him, I am lost, no matter how cultured, educated, or artistic I am. My art stumbles with me through a purposeless lifetime into the hope-less grave.

Oh but thank you God for Your Hope and Love and Reality! He is my portion. In Him my art finds fullest, truest, deepest, glorious meaning. With Him, I sail toward the endless shores of Eternity.

We walk through the Wastelands
Carrying Hope in our backpacks
Wearing Love on our faces
Pouring Grace from our hearts
Holding Truth in our hands
Reflecting Light in our eyes

Living Faith as our Reality.

[Janielle]

SAY WHAT!?

 

After so much that's been happening, it's suddenly come down to 10 DAYS TILL I GET ON THAT PLANE!!! In the past three years and especially the last few months, I've connected - by the coolest of 'coincidences' - with both Africans and Australians whom I'll be meeting over there. I'm mind-blown by the simple fact that I know that none of them have come into my life at this time by chance at all.

 

I didn't go looking for them, although I was always seeking God for His direction every step of the way. But you know, these 'random' people, they came at the right time. And they're exactly the kind of people I've asked God to cross my paths with for this next adventure! I can flip through my journal and find the prayers I've written over the last years and months. It's just becoming this inexplicably brain-bending reality.

 

I write this because I want others to know that whatever crazy plans you have, don't be afraid to surrender them to God. When you do, He'll make a way that you couldn't see before with human eyes. It may be a road of challenges, but it is also the only road that makes sense in a world gone mad.