Walk Through

Here it is...my final walkthrough for my project for the quarter. Enjoy!

JG

Most Favorite Image Thus far

So I'm doing a complete rendered walkthrough of my final architecture project this quarter. While tweaking with all the setups to prepare for the final couple days and my computer needing to chug through it for about a week perhaps and making sure I won't render inside of a wall...I rendered this image. It's beautiful. This is going to be beautiful when it is all done!

I'm doing a sample run tonight so perhaps more beautiful images in the morning...we'll see!

JG

An end to the "perfect war"

If Silence were to speak unhindered this day what would she say?
Would her knowledge reveal a new way
What you my love have found?
Could it be: this sparkle that I see in your eye?
What I Truly believe to be and see?

A Hope for a thing in ruins?
Treasures on a map once reserved for the watery deeps?
Like the butterflies
Who have become ladders to the sky

Everything that I have seen written before me
A heart overflowing in Hallelujah!
Joining in with those who have come before!

Would a fool be put to shame by such things?
A righteous man be blessed to have a heart that would skip a beat?

Perhaps words will defy this new hallelujah!
And such an unnatural grace would bring me to my knees

When I see you in Your fullness in her eyes
When you hear the subtle inflections in my voice
And the melody of this new song I sing

Know sweet stillness your time has come
Drowning out
Calling forth from watery deeps

JG

79:11

Let the groanings of the prisoner come before you; According to the greatness of Your power preserve that which is doomed to die(Psalm 79:11)....restore...and cause Your face to shine upon me and I will be saved(Psalm 80:7).

I mentioned last blog that their lie "chains around my heart that still have yet to be loosed and unlocked".

I fear after tonight and with what God led me to, my heart has in fact been made a prisoner of.

Satan has robbed me of much love and joy, that beautiful thing I desire above all else.

Men must be careful to guard their hearts.

Just as the mind is a battlefield so is the heart within men.

Satan is very crafty and may in fact imprision our hearts.

Preventing us from loving as we should. Preventing us from recieving love.

Prayer is the gateway to a mighty battlefield, a wide and terrible vast flat valley in which nothing but death looms.

And perhaps after this war is waged, to return my heart back from its capture, the sun will rise out over such death lingering no longer returning her rays of hope to a land crying out for her.

JG

Chains around my Heart

It always amazes me how simple life is when I'm up there on that mountain. How the stillness silence and serenity seem to calm every anxiety I haul up there.

Today I must have brought a caravan up that mountain with me, dragging along with it my heart and mind weighed down by so many things I was never meant to carry .But when I was up there, it was finally just me. No caravan. Just me.

On my way up I found these modern day cisterns. I imagine they were used for some Cal Poly infrastructure project at one point but they were no longer used by anyone only the remanants remained: steel tension chains, tarp, and wood. It was fitting though for me to see today of any day to see the reality of myself echoed in those empty cisterns.

I learned a lot today, positioning myself in a place where God was able to invade my heart in the most intimate of ways. He whispered things that almost sounded like secrets but they were simply just words of love whispered in my ears. Letting me see things as they are and responses birthed out of such knowledge.

There are chains around my heart that still have yet to be loosed and unlocked. My heart is ready to overflow it needs merely be unlocked and unchained...the enemies that have invaded the lands around me heart need to be located and killed.

Looks like its time to go to war and rescue my heart.
JG

Looking into Light

I feel Like I should be writing about how this project I am working on in my design class is the culmination of many ideas God has developed within me over the years but I don't really know where to begin other than I find a culmination of many painful things God has led me through to produce something quite beautiful.



I may approach God with a feeling of duty and forget to delight but I am reminded a culmination of God's work within in me produces something I can delight in. I can delight in what my hands are creating because it is merely a reflection of His work within me.



Light is beautiful...

JG

Worth a Thousand Words

Elise sent me an email tonight. She does that. I like them. She reminded me about what happened last year at the time. We have a pretty accurate electronic database known as the blog to consult for such inquiries. It's always interesting to look back on.

But before Elise gave me the perfect opener to this blog I was thinking about how pictures film and other forms of capturing a moment do so so effectively. They define an infinite wonderful thing and are a great reminder to us looking back.

I found myself walking back from my midterm tonight and thought about this idea of capturing the beauty of God in our abilities and talents and was led to the thought of how God might use my gifts and abilities being an artistic creative person. I can only capture in a sense what I see around me and make it into a beautiful tangible thing. I only capture the shadow never the full light.

So I was thinking tonight...it would be a great idea to photograph the bible just like we photograph life. Take a bible verse that is so intimate to us and make it into a photograph.

Just a thought.

I like that thought. I think I've in a sense already been doing it...

To His glory alone,
JG