For the past several years I have chosen a word for the year to remind me of important things. I praying about what I word I will choose for the upcoming year towards the end of the current year - and God has always given me a word.
My word for this year is: Illuminate Until I started photography I really didn't notice how many times light is mentioned in the bible. Light and darkness are strong metaphors used to describe so many things. When you take a picture you are capturing light on a sensor so without light there is no image. The quality of the light that is present changes what is captured by the camera. As a photographer I am trying to capture light. To illuminate is to use light - to capture light, to bring understanding. As I was thinking about how to share my images on a website I came across the verse that became part of the title of the website, "The unfolding of your word gives light." There was the metaphor of light again. If I am going to keep this website up I will have to have light - God will have to illuminate my thinking as I read his word - he will have to bring images to mind that I have taken. I know that without his illumination there will be no words to share. Another way that I have seen the word Illuminate recently is in the St. John's Bible. If you don't know what this is, it is the first illuminated bible in 500 years. This year I had the privilege of hearing Donald Jackson, the calligrapher leading the creation of this bible, and seeing copies of the St. John's Bible. I am not sure why but from the very first time I read and saw images of this bible I was touched in a way that I never expected and I can't explain. It just touches my soul, make me think, and makes me cry for its beauty. It started me thinking about art and its purpose in my world and the drive to create - to illuminate. So this is my word to be illuminated by the unfolding of God's word which I want to study in a deeper way to learn to better capture light, illuminations, with my camera to share my illuminations with others Do you have a word for the year? How do you chose your word? How do you use your word during the year?
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1 Corinthians 10:31
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1 Corinthians 10:31
© 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Karen Milligan