Sandra Heska King

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Textures of Text: Let’s Go All Word Wild

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Perhaps the role of those involved in the arts, then, is to awaken ourselves and others to beauty–in all its risk and richness. ~Luci Shaw

Let’s go all word wild.

Let’s bound over boundaries and

color outside the fence lines.

Let’s open up new spaces within ourselves

and dive in deep waters.

Let’s be reckless with richness

and leap into the light.

Let’s splash the page with color

and melt heaven to earth.

Let’s let our imaginations loose

and gallop with the Spirit.

Let’s wake up to

exuberant beauty!

I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength. ~Ephesians 1:18-19 (Message)

Reflecting in community on chapters 7 and 8 of Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination, and Spirit: Reflections on Creativity and Faith.

Join the discussion over at The High Calling

Also linking today with Peter Pollock’s
One Word at a Time Blog Carnival on fences.

Comments

  2. Meredith says

    This is breathtaking, and refreshing. 🙂

    I found you through High Calling Blogs, and I think I might have just seen you on BlogFrog!
    So excited!!

    • Sandra says

      So cool, Meredith. And you did. I joined the (in)courage community (I thought I already had), and that apparently bumped me right into BlogFrog, and now I have to figure out what to do with that. 😉 Wonderful to see you here.

  5. laura says

    Those photos…I feel like I have plunged headlong into rich living! You certainly have heeded Luci’s call–awakening to beauty. Just gorgeous, Sandy.

    • Sandra says

      Oh, Laura, thanks. I love Luci. I must order this book. The Kindle is just not cutting it.

  6. Lyla Lindquist says

    It’s hard to breathe in the deep sea where you dive, Sandy.

    This is beautiful stuff. I’ve missed getting over here lately. I’ll be fixing that…

    • Sandra says

      Lyla! You’ve been so busy. And I still haven’t forgotten you, girlfriend. Honest. I’m a bad little writer friend.

    • Sandra says

      Ahh, Karen. I thought of you just yesterday as I surveyed my wild not-garden, now all mowed over, gone to grass and weeds.

  11. Hazel Moon says

    Color outside the lines of the fence and – – be brave enough to get out of the box. I liked your line: Let’s splash the page with color and melt heaven to earth. I tried to envision heaven melting and perhaps the rain is more than God’s tears, but a melting of color in process when we see the rain bow.

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