Premise for Drawing in the Presence

I must start off by saying that almost everyone can learn to draw, as long as if you can sign your name, and everyone can benefit in a global way. In her book ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Betty Edwards says: “It’s helpful to remember that we don’t teach reading and writing to produce only poets and writers, but rather to improve thinking.” In time, the skills we employ to draw will become automatic, just like reading, driving or knitting. She also goes on to say, “Arts are essential for training specific, visual, perceptual ways of thinking, just as the ‘3 R’s’ are essential for training specific verbal, numerical, and analytical ways of thinking. I believe that both thinking modes- one to comprehend the details and the other to see “the whole picture”- are vital for critical thinking skills, extrapolation of meaning, and problem solving.” I believe learning to draw is a pathway to creativity and heavenly problem solving.
Learning to draw is actually learning to see. We will learn to process visual information differently than we have before. Our culture, and those also in the Body of Christ, learns predominantly toward the analytical left-brain predominance of perceiving and so we miss out. As the master Creator and Designer, God sees things more holistically. I believe as we begin to see thing differently, new creative solutions to personal, professional, or even global problems will open up.
Too long has God been removed from the artists’ perspective. So many artists today wander aimlessly as they are not plugged in to the source of seeing and creativity. Yet they get revelation that believers have often politely rejected or neglected. Let’s be disciples that embrace God’s ways, in all their mystery and fulness and we will experience abundant fullness like never before. Learning how to draw is a vehicle that can take us straight in to the heart of God, learning how to see the way he does. It has potential to unlock more creativity for all of His Church, as it should be. There is a Renaissance of the Visual Arts coming, and it longs to come to God’s people to bless them, and through that they will be able to be a greater blessing in these times.
I have chosen for us to learn to draw in my home in an environment of peace, Presence, power, and love. It is a place of holiness where the righteous live and the Holy Spirit is always our welcome and honored guest. Angels will look on with joy and anticipation, holding up our hands and lifting up our eyes! Come and join us!