The god of Significance Part 3

This picture has been on the wall of my office for years.

[singlepic id=36 w=240 h=320 float=right] After nine years it has faded from its original glory, but it’s awesome isn’t it?

I know what you are thinking! “Why?” Right, that’s what you are thinking. I mean what is it supposed to be? I guess it’s supposed to be Shelbi’s Family and Friends, but in all honesty it’s Shelbi’s attempt to fill up the page with a marker. But what it is or supposed to be isn’t the point.

Now you ask, “So, why is it on your wall and why has it been there for nine years and what does this have to do with significance?”

I began putting my children’s art on my wall when some shelving was removed from my office and due to some cost cutting at the time it was never painted. So, in an effort to refuse to look at the unfinished wall I began posting art. Shelbi gave this to me with the intention of having me display it, proudly. Now there are other pieces of art that I’m not showing, and that don’t hang on any wall but they are tremendous. Shelbi has become quite the artist.

“Point?” My point is that the picture doesn’t hang on my wall because it’s a significant work. It doesn’t hang there because I’m proud at how well Shelbi drew her family and friends. It doesn’t hang there so people can be impressed with the skill of my child, or with the status that comes with owning such a priceless piece. It hangs there because Shelbi made it. It reminds me of the bright, inquisitive, determined little girl who drew it. I put it on the wall instead of in the trash because she asked me to. It’s a significant piece of work because I think Shelbi is significant.

I think in the big “R” Reality, in the true way that things actually are, what we think is significant really isn’t. What God thinks is significant is us, and it’s only because that He thinks that we are, that we are.

For context see parts 1 and 2.

There will be a part 4