When we painted in class Thursday I was quite unsure what I was going to paint about when I came into class. Then I started to reread the book of Joel and it seemed to me that when I read about the devastation of the locusts that everything was probably very miserable and morbid when that was occurring. I saw a scene playing in my head and a rather morbid one at that. The scene was like the one from the movie, The Mummy Returns where they are in the desert and the small little beetles start flying around and craw under everyone’s skin. So with this movie clip rolling through my head I painted a masterpiece of little locust devastating everything around such as the crops and the single person that I had room to fit on my page. Although my work maybe a little short of an actual masterpiece it did help me to dig a little deeper into the story and really think what it was about rather than just reading idle words on a page. Even though it seemed like a very strange activity at the time it may actually be a helpful way of understanding more of what literature has to say. However I seriously doubt that the next time I get out my Bible that I will whip out the painting supplies and paint a picture of Jesus getting crucified, but maybe that would actually be a helpful activity for some children/teens so that they can really dig deeper into what Jesus really went through. All in all for me it was a very enjoyable activity and helped me in digging deeper into the text, but it would be too unpractical for me to do outside of class because all the mess and the cleanup maybe crayons would be easier.
I know, dude! When I read about the locusts, a movie popped up in my mind, too.
ReplyDeleteThe Reaping is about the ten plagues befalling a little hick town, and the locust scene made me want to hurl!