Made in the Image of God

Today’s Scripture: Genesis 1:27, 31

Well, I’m back. I crawled out of my burrow and saw no shadow. Then I saw my Reflections page on the website (www.minesinguc.org) and remembered how much I enjoyed doing them. So I decided to spring into action. Instead of sending out emails I will simply be posting on my blog. And so…

Having promised myself that today I would return to the blogging world and “Reflections” (my look at the intersection of scripture and culture) I began by checking my email.... "when what to my wondering eyes did appear [in my inbox]" but a wonderful article from Christian Science Monitor.

“There's so much focus in the media and in individual conversations about who is the most beautiful, most successful, best dressed, or most powerful or influential.”
Click here to continue reading...

It so captures some of the things I have been thinking about that I decided to let a link to it be my first blog of February. But I can’t just leave it there.

I started to think about those words, made in the image of God and all the wonderful diversity of that image. On a whim I decided to see what google would come up with. I found two interesting portrait sites. The first is a project that includes pictures and autobiographies. Some of them are whimsical and light, others are more searching and critical. Even in our approach to a seemingly simple task such as answering the question, “who are you?” we are diverse.

You can check out the project here,
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/pubinfo/div/divpeople.html

Last I offer the work of one artist. Chosen at random really, but I liked the way that she captured the unique character of each person. And it seemed to connect with the original article – a horizontal portrait of the “Image of God”
http://www.sssalas.com/comm.html

Shalom
K