Our God is a poet

That He is.

Today, I sat in the back. I watched.

I turned off my mouth, and turned on an opened mind.

The topic? Poetry.

See, here's the thing: God is a poet.

Everything about our lives here mirrors literature.

We are a blank page for lack of better explanation. Have you ever seen a portrait made from text? That is what we are.

As of last week I am a proud owner of a Cooper Van Rossum original work of art. Its a wooden canvas, white washed, with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln's assassinator, John Wilkes Booth, made from the text of a biography of Abraham Lincoln.

We are a wooden canvas, white washed, with a portrait of our God, made from the text of our biographies.

I long to be that work of art.

And God, well, He's like Cooper: an artist, a poet, using his abilities to create a portrait. For our God, its of himself, made of our lives.

I long to be that work of art.