Collage

Today, I had the interesting experience in my digital class of making a collage out of five separate flower pictures.

The first thing that happened was each of the individual flowers got cropped so they would fit together on what would become the collage page.  The flowers were all Iris...with leafy green backgrounds which we had to crop out.

Cropping was rather fun. Then it got really interesting because we could expand a picture of contract a picture we could tilt it and rearrange all the pieces. We could put one particular flower in the center with others around it. Then we could pick the background color.

Oh, the joys of digital editing. What came out of this was SOMETHING NEW. The individual parts were there but they were somehow made to fit into a new picture that was beautiful.

We, the body of Christ, are like individual flowers. We need to be cropped. We need to be tilted and moved. We need to fit into those around us who are working with us. Because, we are "an edifice being built into a holy temple in the Lord.  Ever thought that the trials and the take aways from your life might have something to do with God working on a larger picture?