The Holiness in the Bending

Are you wrestling with something that seems to have no answer? Something that doesn’t sit right in your spirit? It may be that you’re trying to mold it into your own plan instead of allowing God to shape it into His.

This post is by guest blogger Alycia Neighbours, my youngest daughter (by only 13 minutes behind her twin “older sister”). She’s a gifted artist and writer who shares from the heart. Blessings as you read:

Have you ever started creating something; an idea, a plan, a prayer and halfway through realized God was quietly redrawing it? That what you thought you were building was only the outline, and His hand had been guiding the shape all along?

I kept coming back to it, adding a line, walking away, returning again. Every time I thought it was finished, He whispered, “Look again!”

It stopped being about art and became about surrender; about letting go of what I wanted to say so He could reveal what needed to be seen.

And when it was done, I did something I never do. I placed it where I’d see it often.

Not because it’s my best work; it isn’t. The lines waver, the balance feels off, but maybe that’s exactly why it matters. Because the message wasn’t meant to live in perfect execution, but in the imperfect place where obedience and grace meet.

My “stone of remembrance”; a marker of the moment I finally stopped trying to control the message and let the Creator speak through the creation.

Now it sits where I can see it, reminding me that faith, like art, isn’t about perfect lines or steady hands. It’s about trust. It’s about returning to the page again and again until what you see finally matches what He’s been showing you all along.

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