ok, the training session in the second half of the day was pretty interesting, in the sense that it talks about using art therapy to come to terms of healing within oneself. It was more free flow and kinda "stream of consciousness" style, as the trainer is a abstract artist by training, and she uses art to help people to draw out their inner emotions. So to use words to describe what she's doing is pretty limiting. Nonetheless, I think I managed to get a sense of where she was going with her "ministry". I think it's wonderful how the Lord allows her to use her talent of just welcoming people into her studio and using creative means to just paint out their lives. Sometimes words are really just now adequate, and one needs to let the emotions come out.
As usual, I went off tangent again, by thinking," Hmm, maybe we just want to be like our Heavenly Father in that respect, in wanting to create something..."
Amazingly, the trainer also talks about the art of solitude, and the importance of self-care. She said in day-to-day life, we are being assuaged by chatter in our minds, and not being present to ourselves or others. She commented we have lost the art of being still and waiting upon the Lord, or something to that effect. We need to create a space that is within us that can connects to others, and not being so obsessed about us.
Again I was reminded of the picture of a vessel that's already filled with water and covered up. If you try to fill it up with more water, without removing the cover, then the excess water will just wash over the whole vessel, But if you remove away the cover, and poke a small hole at the bottom of the vessel, then fresh water can come in and be poured forth from the opening...
I think one of my co-worker connected beautifully with his analogy of looking at space within places of worship. In a temple, mosque, or cathedral, you usually have a large space within it to contain a vast volume of nothingness.** It's to remind the worshippers when they're inside on the vastness and infinity of God, to convey that sense of majesty and glory, even though if it's within a confined space of finite measurements. So space is important, to have that within ourselves, so as to allow God to come in and fill us.
The trainer was struck by this analogy, as she said it brings to her mind about how Jesus refers to our bodies as the temple of the Holy Spirit...
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*sounds New Age-y, but is not, i assure you :P
** Sorry ah, I not architecture student, so my terms will be insufficient to describe.
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