The Work of Your Fingers

Next week children will assemble "trash" into art.  Lori Pepiton, our Children's Pastor, joined by adult and teen volunteers, will host Rabbit Creek Church's Art Camp.  I eagerly anticipate seeing the gallery of creations.  Little hands guided by intrigued minds will tape, glue, pound, and twist (hopefully without bruises as souvenirs) old items with former uses into new items with new uses - mainly for their audience's "viewing pleasure."

Ordinary Life is packed full of art.  God placed art everywhere, in part, for our viewing pleasure.  King (and poet) David observed . . .

Psalm 8 (NIV)
1 LORD, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
    to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
    and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
    you put everything under their feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
    and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,
    all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 LORD, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

I am thankful for God's creativity within Creation.  That is to say, I am so pleased that God chose to include beauty, wonder, and art as He crafted all that we see, smell, hear, and feel.  God created in full color.  God created with a taste for art. 

In a week or so, I will view the creations (formations) of toddlers and the hand-crafted pieces of elementary children.  I will see what those young creations of God crafted with their hands and think of the One who crafted them.  I will consider the work of their fingers and consider the Crafter of the heavens.

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