Unfathomable Love

The last few weeks I have been participating in a summer program designed by my friend Meggie, for the women of our church to pray for each other all summer long. I have a list of women, and I pray for one per day, and Meggie supplied some scripture references to help us pray.

I have also been contemplating for the last few months, the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Whatever I am studying or reading comes out in my paintings. Today's painting is called Unfathomable. It is from one of the scriptures that Meggie gave me: Ephesians 3:18 & 19.

The photo in the painting is taken from a rather unflattering photo of myself as I was sitting in the sun on the long weekend. I never realized my nostrils were so huge! I could have named the painting "Nostrildamus", but I digress...

I started painting the face at the bottom, and as I contemplated the rest of the painting, I realized that yet again the piece would represent several things: Pentecost, the Holy Spirit in us, and also the wild thoughts and ideas spiralling out of my head onto my canvas.

But most of all, Unfathomable represents "how wide, how long, how high and how deep" the love of Christ is. "May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God." Eph.3:19