A Fresh Start in the New Year

I’m making a fresh start in the new year – linking up on Five Minute Friday again after a long hiatus. I’d like to share poems and prayers I write in five minutes flat, along with recent artwork I’m doing to fill my soul. Here goes!

A Fresh Start in the New Year

Father God,

I want to make a fresh start this new year.

It’s been too long since I created things

in a longing to reflect your glory.

Creating beauty that’s only a copy of yours

yet something innate I long to do.

I love the feel of pen on paper,

the rush of color on a blank page.

Charcoal scooting across vellum

and watercolor seeping into art paper.

Help me make a fresh start

in my long-forsaken art career,

the one I enjoyed developing

in three-hour-long B.F.A. classes,

entering that space of flow

you create for us

as a thin space between heaven and earth.

The space where we are at the center of your will,

investing the talents you lavishly gave to us

to mysteriously create more

where there once was nothing.

O Father, what a joy to bear

your image, to create as you created,

to offer the world something beautiful

that expresses life beyond words.

A shadowed glimpse

of the beauty angels see

every day around your throne

and on the hills of heaven.

 

Written from 6:50 to 6:55 a.m., Friday, January 15, 2021 on the prompt, Fresh.

 

You can learn more about my new creative endeavors on this post, When You Need A New Kind of Rest, where I showed you this recent painting:

 

Here’s a page I colored from Choose Joy, which is one of my favorite books of 2020!

Art Sunday coloring page

 

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