What It's All About

Because I call my blog “Illustrator’s Way”, you may get the idea that I’m just going to write about drawing pictures for children’s books. That used to be all the word “Illustrate” meant to me, until I found this entry in our 1828 Webster’s dictionary (facsimile first edition):

[my edited version]

That was the moment I realized that being an “illustrator” is what I believe God has called me and gifted me to do. Whether I’m telling a story to children, painting a canvas, inking lines that could become words or pictures, arranging flower bouquets, lifting my hands in church, making a greeting card, or inventing characters that people will want to go on adventures with, I am here to show the glory of our Creator.

Can you imagine utter darkness? Blacker than black, with no glimmer or glow anywhere in all the vastness of space?

And then God’s voice says:

“Let there be light.”

Behold, He loved us so much that He sent His Son, coming in human flesh, to look us in the eye and say, “I am the light of the world.”

Jesus Christ came to illustrate the Father to us, and I want to follow His way.