Just Like You Promise, (first draft of pictures)

This song reflects my belief that when God's presence comes He changes things and brings His nature into our lives. That He has come, He will come and He is coming again. And it's got Matt, (my husband), singing Louis Armstrong style.

The first painting expresses the curtain being drawn back , we will see fully one day, and to me also alludes to the curtain separated in the Old Testament. We have access to the Holy Presence. The far island could be future hope or present hope of what God will do...

The second painting I wanted to draw Jesus face and body but time was short and I settled on a silhouette hoping that his form still looked bodily and not just a spirit.

The cross is the intersection of heaven and earth, of time, matter and space. A place where an overlap of Gods and our spheres occur. The tomb is where our hope centres. That he truly rose again. We have His goodness and love and kindness wrapped up in theses two events.

The heavenly waterfall is His life flowing into us, His oil blessing us. The sheer joy of it . Originally I drew the waterfall with just people. Thinking of how God wants to include in creation in His renewing I put in a mountain with trees bowing and rocks and sand with water.... The people are in varying degrees of involvement and response.

The bubbles are how I see His presence coming into ours and not just our souls, but our bones and breath. Except I couldn't fit that all in the lyrics... This came out of my worship prayer in the last few months. Finding hard situations I would come before Him again to ask once more for His presence to soak me that I would live out of that place rather than my situation.