8 July 2011

Time with Papa Ken was kind of a continuation of yesterday, which was really great. There was a lot of stuff that came out of that one Chambers reading! What we were talking about today was how Jesus trusted people, but didn’t “entrust” himself to them. i.e. He believed in the good in people, He trusted them with secrets about the kingdom, He trusted the disciples to spread the good news... but He didn’t let people dictate who He was. He wouldn’t let them crown Him, or make Him the kind of messiah they had hoped for. We can trust people, but we don’t let them dictate who we are, or speak into our identity. Only God can do that! We broke for breakfast, and then on our way to the art room for art day, I ran into Papa Ken again. He gave me a big hug, and said, “You know, you’re such a delight!” Made my day :o)

So... art day today. We started with a journal assignment. We had to ask God: “Where have You taken me?” If this summer was a map, where/what would be the beginning, and where/what would be the end? When we came back, Justina got us to do a fun “family portrait” exercise, just to help us loosen up. We were divided into groups of about four, and then we had to pose as if for a family portrait. Then, one by one, we would leave the group, and draw one of the others on our group’s large piece of paper. Then that person would rejoin the pose, and someone else would come and draw them! We used a kind a modified blind-contour style (only allowed to look down at the page a few times), so some of them turned out to be VERY funny! We coloured them, and then hung them up. After that we were sent outside again to go find our very own board for our new art assignment. They were hanging up all about; it felt like a treasure hunt! We had to return to what we had written in our journals, and begin to plot out how we’re going to represent our journey on this ‘canvas’. It’s a kind of mapping project. We carried on after lunch, and I went about printing out maps of Grahamstown, Durban, South Africa and North Carolina. I’m ripping them all up, and am going to layer them all over the background. It’s going to have something about a wall coming down, music rising up, and an open door... but we’ll see how that all works out! I am really LOVING time on the art room! I want to keep doing more of it, even when I’m back home.

We also had our collectives today. We did a bit more “music appreciation” (listening to some great songs, and sharing what we though/felt about them) and also some more music theory. I sent some time after that fiddling on the piano a little, which I really enjoyed. We also had a GREAT supper tonight (we had a test-run of the supper we’re serving tomorrow night for the Awake Church blessing!). We had planned to have another open mic evening tonight outside, but the rain began bucketing down (GLORIOUS, I LOVE rain!), so it’s been postponed to Sunday night. So we had a family movie night instead, and watched ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ together :o) I also managed to squeeze in a bit more time in the art room after that! Loving it!