God's
Re-Creation
by Cathy Vinson |
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As I get underway
on a new artwork, I tend to subtly say to my family, "Why don't you stop by the spare
bedroom and see what I'm working on..." and a few days later mention "why don't
you stop in the room and see where that piece is going."
What am I desiring when I do this? I am wanting those who are close to me to enter into my
creative juices, to share in that with me...to experience and rejoice in the midst of my
expression. It is a form of intimacy I long for from them.
Don't we see this same desire of our Father's? IN the day He has made, we can rejoice, and
for that reason alone: it is His artwork. Sharing in it, we share pleasure with Him.
Eleanor Farjean (1957) recognized and danced right into this jubilee in her hymn
"Morning Has Broken." In the exaltation within her sunlit phrases, we are
transported and shown eyes with which to see the new day..."morning has broken like
the first morning, blackbird has spoken like the first bird...sweet the rain's new fall,
sunlit from heaven...praise for the sweetness of the wet garden sprung in completenes
where His feet pass...the sunlight...born of the one Light Eden saw play..."
Let us enter into the artistry of the new day. Let us see the divine privilege of
possession when we take time to rejoice with the Artist: "Mine
is the sunlight; mine is the morning..." Even when we sense problems to be strewn
along the side of it, there is reason enough to rejoice. The
confines of the new morning are boarded off from the nightfall and the day previous. It is
a new work.
"Praise with elation, praise every morning: God's re-creation of the new day!."
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