You are held together, not by staples or nails or man-made things, but by bone and vein and skin. You are not machine or robot or list, you are human – warm, tender, living.

shadows and lightThe Father took great pleasure in having all his fullness to dwell in Christ. And Christ makes his home in you, in me. This is the greatest art project of all.

You are one complete person, not a fragmented person. And so we begin to accept the whole, not just the parts we like. We refuse to wade through our design like a toddler with a pack of M&Ms – only the red ones, please.

We embrace the whole spectrum of color, the light as well as the darkness and all the layers of shadow in between.

31 days of Living Art

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