I’ve wanted to post something here for a week or so, but I haven’t had anything good enough to post, so instead I will share what has been encouraging me recently, and maybe all of those things together will make an interesting enough post! And maybe you’ll be encouraged as well.

This is a video that Riley showed me about an artist named Makoto Fujimura who is working on some abstract paintings for an edition of the ESV Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that are being published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the KJV Bible. It discusses a little bit of the art/faith things we’ve talked about here before, plus the paintings are beautiful. It’s worth the 8 minutes.

I think my favorite thing about this, though, is that he is effectively making contemporary illuminated manuscripts, which is what the monks did when they copied down the Bible before the printing press was invented. They would use colorful paint and gold, silver and bronze leaf to embellish the first letter of paragraphs, and make really intricate borders. It’s kind of a cool parallel.

I came across this article from the gospel coalition about Jesus’ Prayer for us to God really interesting and encouraging.

Also, there’s been a fantastic song by Andrew Peterson stuck in my head for the past week. It’s called The Good Confession (I Believe) and it’s wonderful:

Download a .pdf of the chord chart here. I love his writing. If you don’t listen/watch to the whole thing (which you should!), then at least start from 2:55. Then you’ll be convinced it’s worth it and start from the beginning anyway. So you should just watch the whole thing