Shapes of grace
From my journal, August 2025
Jesus, what do you want to show me this morning?
I hear “coloured shapes.” As I walk through the throne room door, I see splashes of coloured paint on it, and inside, Jesus is sitting at the table. He’s cutting out pieces of coloured card into different shapes. Circles. Triangles. Rectangles. Squares. He looks up, happy to see me.
“Come join me,” he says. I see there’s a second pair of scissors for me. So I sit down and begin to cut out some shapes too.
“What are we cutting out?” I ask.
“Shapes of my grace,” he says without hesitating. Completely confused but somehow content, I continue cutting. Mostly triangles.
“What are we going to do with them?” I ask.
“We’re making an artwork,” He responds.
At first I think it’s going to be flat, like creating a little colourful 2D house out of a triangle and a square for example. But I start to realise he’s planning a full-on 3D model. I start to feel a bit nervous. Like Oh no…I won’t be cutting the pieces right. I don’t have them measured, they’ll need to all fit together…He sees the worried look on my face.
“You’re good, girl,” he says with a little laugh. “Watch this...”
He takes my little triangles that I’ve cut (quite roughly let’s be honest). And takes some of his pieces and starts holding them together and breathing on them. Something about his breath seems to hold them together.
I am reminded of the verse Colossians 1:17:
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
I watch as he continues to bring all the pieces and create a full 3D model house with them. Not only that, he starts creating the details too, little windows and doors, doormats, even curtains that open and close. All with the pieces we’ve cut together. Some are mine. Some are his. But they all fit somewhere because of his creative mastermind behind it all.
“That’s what I’m going to do with your pieces,” he says. “You do your best to cut out the colours you want, and I’ll make something incredible out of them.”
I get the feeling he’s not just building a house – he’s building an intricate, colourful city. It’s going to be the most incredible creation! And I definitely won’t be able to take credit for it, haha.
The city he is building is His Kingdom. He builds it with the imperfect pieces we give to him, the colourful shapes of his grace.