Fingerpainting the Spirit

Tonight's LifeSpace class focused on the Holy Spirit as the Giver of Life. We began by drawing boxes with black Sharpie markers on white paper. Many approaches to life with God either attempt to put the Spirit in one of those boxes or expect the Spirit to draw such lines around us. So little color. So little life.

But the Spirit as God's Breath is unpredictable. "You don't know where it is from," Jesus said, "or where it is going." The Spirit will not be boxed in so easily. Convinced that the Spirit brings life in technicolor, we passed out some fingerpaint. Here is the result:

The lines have been overshadowed by that which is unpredictable, delightful, and bursting with color. Not a bad image for the work of the Spirit!

Joni and Bob