We Trust Thee For the Thing We Shall Be Yet

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Christi
We Trust Thee For the Thing We Shall Be Yet

We Trust Thee For the Thing We Shall Be Yet

8×10″ pen and pastel on paper
March 29, 2013

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Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Hidden Life:

“He, when his lamp shot up a spiring flame,
Would thus break forth and climb the heaven of prayer:

‘Do with us what thou wilt, all-glorious heart!
Thou God of them that are not yet, but grow!
We trust thee for the thing we shall be yet;
We too are ill content with what we are.’

And when the flame sank, and the darkness fell,
He lived by faith which is the soul of sight.”

About Christi

I am a single mother with two young daughters who are the world to me. I am a philosophy professor, especially fond of Kierkegaard and Augustine. Presently, I teach as an adjunct at a plethora of colleges in the Houston area, trying to make ends meet. Creating art brings me immense joy, but only recently have I begun to venture into the arena of making my creations a consumer commodity. I'd rather my work be created as a good in itself, and given to those I love. But necessity breeds invention, they say, and human beings have to eat.
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