The sky last night was absolutely amazing at the football game. It was a lot of fun to stand on the sidelines. The air was calm after an immense storm the previous two days. Friday night there were tornado warnings all night long and rain all day and finally just before game time the rain stopped and the air felt so fresh. I was standing next to a team doctor that my Bible study has nicknamed perve (as in pervert) anyway he is always making fun of Christians, but last night he said "Cate look at the sky, do you think it's a sign?" And I said "yes." He made me take a picture of it, it reminds me of the statue of liberty's hat.Today I took Brady on a walk and I ended up visiting with a family that goes to my church, they live about half a block down the street. We talked about a variety of subjects but one thing that really got me thinking was a comment about art and it's role in the Church and culture. The wife commented that she has alway wanted to start a Christian camp for the arts. She said "art has such a profound effect on society yet we overlook it so often in the church for bigger building projects and stuff like that." Art often connects with peoples hearts in ways that building projects or hot coffee at the door never will. That's why we call music worship. There are a lot of different kinds of worship, but the one that connects to a vast majority is thru music. My friend Kerstin is an artist. Her church sent her down to New Orleans last spring to document thru photographs what was going on down there because they felt that photos taken by an artist would convey much more than the testimonies of those from their church who were down there serving. She just got a job on newbury street in Boston making wedding dresses for Vera Wang. I think if she were to say to people that she was in full time ministry and that her ministry was speaking to peoples hearts thru photography, painting, and theatre costume design, most Christians would ask her how many people she has witnessed to and how many tracts she has distributed thru her ministry. Unless she is directly employed by a church, and then only a mega church that needs a costume designer and photographer on staff, she will have to be a tent making missionary in order to worship God thru the amazing gift He has given her. Ultimately God is asking to emulate Him and His Son, and God is an artist, just look at the night sky.
