Give Me Vision...

I often pray for God to show me his plan, his vision for me.  We all know that if He wants us to see his vision, He will show us in His good time.

I have been having vision issues - an ultra rare processing disorder.  I drew the eye as a prayer for my own physical vision symptoms. I planned to then draw in the lyrics to God I Look To You around the eye.  (Such a good song!  I'll link it here...)

When the eye was complete, I wasn't feeling the lyrics around it, but felt called to draw the full face instead.  The prayer also changed with the change in design for the drawing.  I added a freckle in the lower portion of the iris, to match the freckle in my daughter's eye.  

My prayer turned from my vision issue to asking God to help my daughter see the amazing things He has done in my life, and to help me be a model of a Christian woman for her.  She seems interested in my faith.  She asks questions occasionally, but as a teenager who has never known God or church, she is still unsure of it all. 

I am giving her time, trying to be a positive model and showing her some of my drawings that I'm really proud of.  I prayed for a long time over this drawing and over my daughter.

She saw this particular drawing when the eye was done, but he face was just being filled it around it.  She said the girl's mouth was wrong, it was too upturned if she was sad and crying.  I told her that she wasn't sad and to look at it again.  She studied the drawing and seemed to understand that the girl was overwhelmed with joy at the sight she was seeing.  I smiled at my beautiful daughter, then drew in the freckle so she could see it match hers.

I don't have a particular verse associated with this drawing chosen, the song says it all.

Here is a detail photo of the eye:

Flowers fall...

On Sunday, I purchased a couple of new, smaller sketch books with toned paper. I also grabbed a kit with an extra set of pencils to travel with, and it had charcoal in it. Someday maybe I’ll try charcoal. Lastly, a can of fixative spray because my precious drawings smudge against each other in their sketchbooks...

This piece was inspired by my YouVersion app. It is today’s verse of the day and it was a fast one! (Speaking in relative terms here, many of my drawings have taken 10-12 or even more hours.). This speedy project took about 2 hours total;  a half hour for the flower, but about 1.5 hours to decide on a font, sketch it out and fill in the letters.

Pencil with ink and white gel roller.

Here’s a detail crop...

One...

Having a discussion with a good friend... It was asked "If you had your pencils out... What would One Flock One Shephard look like to you?"

This is the result.  The world represented, people from all sorts of regions, religions, cultures coming together as one under Jesus.  Note that all of the people are moving TOWARD him, not away - not making disciples, but coming together as one church built on the rock... Some have arms raised high, some have a more withdrawn and humble approach.

A fun and unexpected surprise that everyone picks up as soon as they see it?  God's HAND on us (the world) as believers.  The groups of those seeking Him were supposed to be approaching the cross and converging into one large group.  The hand/fingers effect was completely given to the drawing by Him.

Verse of inspiration:

John 17: 20-21 Jesus Prays for All Believers...

 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.