Five Minute Friday :: Horizon

Today's header is my Sky Horizon painting.

Welcome back, Kate! Andrew and Sylvia were excellent hosts with some super-fun prompts.


• Five Minute Friday :: Horizon Linkup

When you draw in perspective, you draw a horizon line to help accurately locate all the elements in your drawing. You know the sight and the feeling of an open road with that distant horizon you think you're getting closer to as you travel, but if the terrain is a certain way, you can approach it but you never can really really reach it. Horizons shift and change.

Downtown in the city or walking around the 'hood, you don't often get the horizon experience because there are too many objects and distractions in the way. We know about spending time in creation in order to gain perspective—besides glorying in God's incredible creation, which in itself helps us face more uncertainties, at some locations you can see the horizon and you can see forever into eternity.

What about the horizons of your life calling, your life's purpose, the horizons of the unknown? The horizons of where you are right here and right now?

I began this FMF with perspective drawing. Drawing a horizon line so you can accurately locate everything on your canvas, screen, or paper has a nice parallel when you assess your current and future life horizons and locate important elements on it. Have you ever done that in your journaling? Or in conversation with a friend, mentor, or therapist? At least for me, doing it with pencil and paper is essential.

As I focus on the future, what does today's horizon tell me? If I compare my current life horizon with a different time, maybe a different place, what do I see? Can I move the pieces around for a more pleasing perspective? How about trying this as part of your daily prayer, maybe early in the morning, or right before you (at least try to) sleep at night?

Are you getting closer to the horizon as you travel throughout each day and week? Or have your horizons shifted?

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