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The Timing of a Beautiful Creator

20 August, 2013 |

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I once watched a powerful video of an artist–David Garibaldi.

The stage is set with anticipation. The room is darkened. The lights encircle the stage.

The music begins, soft and steady, as the artist pulls out a couple of brushes and begins to paint.

At first, the canvas looks rather empty.

beautiful-in-its-time

Just a few slaps of paint here and there

You wonder, “What is he doing?”

As he keeps slinging the brushes and throwing the paint, you then ask yourself, “Does he even know where he’s going with this? Is this all a waste of time?”

But he appears enthusiastic.

Passionate and inspired to create a masterpiece, you stick with him because, somehow, you know that whatever he’s creating will be pretty remarkable.

Still, it looks like a kid could do it.

You wonder how the scattered strokes and smeared paint could ever create anything recognizable, much less worthy of being deemed as beautiful art.

But then, the music softens and the strokes become more distinct. And way down deep you realize this will be an experience to remember.

As the song rings out, “it’s a new day. . .a new day. . .”

The artist flips the canvas.

There, you see it–the beautiful glory of it all.    

  [“The Glory Of It All“ by David Crowder Band]

It makes sense.

Every stroke.

Every slap of paint across the canvas.

The artist flips over what first appeared to be haphazard aims and inconsistent slaps of paint, to reveal a powerful message within his beautiful art.

The Timing of a Beautiful Creator

God is painting your picture.

Sometimes our lives appear haphazard and maybe even upside down.

Sometimes painful, the strokes feel scattered and random and anything but beautiful.

Wrapped within it, we can’t make sense of His work or the daily movements of His progression.

[Tweet “Though we can’t always see it, God always makes beautiful things.”] 

In the midst of His work, be patient.

Trust God’s handiwork.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Ecclesiastes 3:11a

What about you?

What beautiful work is God creating in you today? Share your comments.

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Comments

  1. Ashley R says

    20 August, 2013 at 8:44 am

    Wow…I seriously got goosebumps from this. Thank you so much for your beautiful words and for sharing such a powerful video.

    • mitzi says

      20 August, 2013 at 9:12 am

      thanks, Ashley!
      the artist is amazing–and as I watched him I couldn’t help but think of our own Artist–I’m thankful that God makes beautiful things 🙂

  2. Kathi Woodall says

    20 August, 2013 at 12:45 pm

    Saw this video on FB a few days ago and loved it.

    Appreciated your article today; I’m waiting for God to flip over my picture. Seriously trying to figure out what to do with my latest manuscript and not feeling any direction at all!

  3. Elisa says

    21 August, 2013 at 9:37 pm

    So awesomely true! Thanks for sharing this week!

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