IMAGINING GOD

This blog came as a result of my long time image of God and me.  It has been a long time since I created this image of Him but not a lifetime.  It started some twenty years ago when I was attending a christian music competition.  At the time I was managing a young christian artist, someone I had met through community theater.  He had aspirations of "making it big" and this contest seemed to be a hopeful taking off point for him as the grand prize was creating an album.  As luck would have it, or better put, as God would have it, he won the competition and that made it easy for me in seeking bookings for him.  Our association was short-lived as there were things in his background and some questionable events that caused me to re-evaluate this endeavor as his manager.  But it was during that competition that my mind fashioned this particular image of God, an image I think of often, even now.  Funny how the mind works and how we sometimes need to create something to help us envision God.

PICTURES
by Patty Lynn

When I lay down and pray to God

Or Jesus Christ, His Son,
I imagine He's a giant tall
Compared to this small one.

And as I look into His face

His tenderness is there.
His eyes are clear and sparkling.
He listens with such care.

But sometimes I imagine this:

Just how He looks at me
When I am doing something wrong.
His scowling face I see.

Yes, I imagine that He looks

So disappointed, sad,
Like I looked when my kids were small
And they did something bad.

But I know when I come to Him

With a heart that is sincere,
There's a look that shows His mercy
As my "giant" God comes near...

It's then He gently scoops me up

And says to me, "My child,
I'll love you always, ever."
In a voice so soft and mild.

What comfort my God gives me.

His forgiveness is complete.
Then carefully He sets me down
Again right at His feet.

These earthly pictures help me here

To feel my Savior close,
But someday I will be with Him
And all the heavenly hosts.

It's there I won't need pictures

Imagined in my mind.
For I will see Him face to face,
My Father, sweet and kind.

No greater moment will there be

As hand in hand with Him,
I realize with my own eyes
My images were dim.

They can't compare to "actual,"

For now I'm ever blest.
Imagination there on earth
Was limited at best.