Some thoughts about life and color..

If you were to associate God with any color what would it be? Why? I asked someone this question and just by telling me the color they picked they shared a lot about what they think God is all about. They actually revealed to me-in words- how they see God.

Some background info: I was getting some coffee here at school and was drawing on my coffee sleeve. I wrote “I’m learning to love you more Lord” (How super spiritual right? Haha) Anyway, as I looked at the sleeve I thought to myself, “CRAP! I shouldve written the word Lord in blue!” But when I stopped and thought about it I thought, “Why did I want to write the word ‘Lord’ in blue?” After I gave it some thought I came to the conclusion that I wanted to write it in blue cuz when I think of the Lord I often think of peace. Peace, and forgiveness. How God remembers my sin no more.

SO. Out of curiosity I asked a youth at my church this question and she said blue too. At first she said, “Well…blue..because I think of …the sky. And when people think of the sky they are happy…” Well, she said something to that effect. And after I asked her to cut the crap we eventually got into some pretty deep stuff. I talked it over with my super great boyfriend (in comes Abe) and he asked the question, “Well what about the sky? Why did she pick the sky?” I said “ABE! That’s brilliant!” So then I asked the girl, “Why did you pick the sky?” She of course said that she didn’t know. But then I told her, “Well, you mentioned the sky. Not only did you mention blue but you also mentioned the sky...As beautiful as the sky is and how it gives some people peace…it’s still the sky. And the sky is not that close. It’s actually pretty far from where we are…Do you feel that God is far from you? Or do you feel far from God? And if you feel distance between you and God…who moved?” Her eyes opened real wide and she was like, “Stef, that’s crazy…” And from then on we have been able to really link God together with life. It made her think. Made me think too.

The things we say reveal how we see things. We are finite people trying to describe an infinite God. And we use things like words, pictures, objects, etc to describe God. That’s why I think questions like the one above are so great. Because it initiates conversation and provokes the mind. This is our feeble way of describing such a great God that to some is a father but to others is a judge. I loved how as I spoke with her that day she opened up to me. We were able to sit down and chop it up. By talking through things—actually going in depth--she was able to see how intimately involved God really is in our lives. And I loved every bit of it! Our conversation was proof of how effective interactive conversations really are. Little by little she is starting to see God a little differently (Praise God!)

Some final thoughts…

Like the girl I was talking to I think people want something real. Young and old. Real faith that they can hold on to when life seems to fall apart around them. We lack being real as Christians sometimes. I think most people can agree (or maybe not lol) that being surface level is the easy way out. We have surface level conversations, fake interactions, etc. But that day that I was talking to her I realized that it’s not that people don’t have faith or don’t want to have faith. They just don’t know what that looks like. And on top of that they’ve been given a bad example of what church is.

What would happen if people got together and talked about life? Talked about how the word of God plays a role in our lives? In my life? Are we really practicing atheists behind closed doors? Skeptics? Doubting Thomas’? I know I have been. Countless times. How do we see God? How do I see him? What do you compare God to? Does what you pick reflect anything about His character or how you see Him? Are we afraid to ask these questions sometimes because we know that we’d be facing ourselves?

My thoughts are kinda everywhere—so bear with me (haha) Maybe I’ll straighten out my thoughts some other time. But these were just a few things that were on my heart and on my mind so----I thought I’d share them. So there it is. Santo! haha