Yesterday flew by! I woke up later than usual, so I didn't shower. Went to a class called Visual studies, which is my favorite!!!! This cute blonde lady who wears dresses a lot and no makeup, but pretty enough she doesn't need it, teaches us all about being creative and using the elements and principles of design to create amazing images. Images that are truly art! She studied art in college and has a few degrees. I totally relate to all of her lectures and she uses tons of art history, which makes me feel like the five billion hours of sitting in art history class at Drake was actually worth it. I've recognized every image she's used and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one. (yes, I'm bragging, but I'm allowed to after a semester of three 4 hour/day art history classes, totaling $12,000)
Anyway, from there I went to rent a lens for my baby cannon. It's a sweet lens, but I signed away my credit card in case anything happens to it. Oh well, just another $1,000 on the $100,000 limit, right? KIDDING!
Then I had a cracker and a brownie that someone gave me for lunch because I woke up late and didn't pack one.
I rode with Mike, Sarah, and Ashleigh to Fort Missoula for a photoshoot. Mike is 50 ish, Sarah 30-40 ish, and Ashleigh is 22 farm girl. The day was gorgeousssss! Probably 75 and sunny. Tony, the tall guy teacher and Eileen the cute blonde teacher were there to help 12 of us through our photoshoot. We were taking photos of this old train station and working on getting correct exposure by figuring out where to meter. We basically tried to see the world in black and white and then found the medium grey tones to meter from before taking photos. (Okay, I'm obviously not explaining this the best)
I went home and finally took a shower and headed off to a BBQ for all the photo students, 80 of us. It was so fun and I was starving!!!! The food was really good and a few people brought their little kids. I spent the majority of the time playing with them! It's crazy how much I miss subbing little people all day and playing with two-year olds every week.
Today I don't have class until 2:00!!! I woke up late, cleaned my room, ate breakfast, called my insurance lady, went for a walk down by the river and past all these music and food vendors setting up downtown, talked to mom and ended up at Bernice's bakery to drink coffee and read my bible. I read John 4:23-24, which is becoming one of my favs!!!
(I just took a break to go eat Abby's fried rice and realllllyy good cookies! I love her)
Anyway, I also read about Jesus walkin' on the water, the samaritain woman, the lady caught in adultry, and lazerus...basically, I read John. But I had a realllly cool revelation!
I read John 12:41-43. It talks about how when people go so long seeing miracles and still not believing Jesus, that God hardens their heart...not that he doesn't let them believe, but He grants their wish basically. If they turn away so long, they eventually become permanently hardened. After realizing how ridiculously heartbreaking this is, I thought of a really cool analogy: clay. When I taught a clay unit to elementary art students I told them if they were completely done with their project and they wanted me to fire it, they should leave it out to dry, but if they wanted to keep working on it, they should wet it, cover it, and continue to work on it the next day. Once their piece had been laid out to dry, I would put it in the kiln and it would be perminantly hardened. It was no longer capable of going back to a moldable state.
I'll be back. Asheigh's here to take me to class.
but my revelation:
PREACHING GO'DS WORD THROUGH ART EDUCATION!
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