Well, having been a primary school teacher before I was a Rev, and before I was a dad, I saw a lot of children’s attempts at being artistic. Sometimes great unexpected things emerged, sometimes it took hours to clean up the mess and make the classroom look fit for human habitation again! This week at home we’ve had a similar mix of child creativity.
On Sunday I used red poster paint in my morning service to show how God washes away sin, based on Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD.
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
Little did I know that later that afternoon back at home, Jemima, our youngest, would decide to turf out the same paints from my resources box and paint the entire surface of her new trampoline in the same bright scarlet paint. We should have taken a picture.
Here, at least, is the aftermath.
Truth is, we were too panicked and wanted to clean it, and the carpet, and the sofa as fast as possible. 7 washing-up bowls full of hot water later, and after a lot of scrubbing of said things, and of Jemima, things looked a lot better. Ho hum, such is life. No real damage done.
Then here is a picture or two of a little person of ours having donned a guitar in order to sing “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”. The second looks like a bit of Van Halen head-action!
Cute or what?
Finally, and here is the star turn, number 2, Daisy is home ill from school today, and was asking me what she could do with a bunch of acrylic paints she had for Christmas. I dug out some old flooring material to use as a canvas, and Daisy found her Disney characters drawing book, and with a pencil, the paints, a bit of fatherly guidance, and some patience here is the beautiful result, along with the proud, soon to be famous, artist. Not bad for 6, don’t you think?
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