Class: Electronic Design
Assignment: Create a standard tri-fold brochure about “magic” – whatever that means to you.
I learned two new things from the Holy Spirit while working on this project.
The first involved the background on the white panels. From pretty early on, I had a vague image of it in my mind as well as the term “wedding dress.” My assumption, however, was that the idea in my mind was not fully developed enough to be important. I only knew that it looked a little bit lacy, so I searched for lace pictures online.
I found one that maybe said “wedding dress” and had it in my document for a while. It was really far from what I imagined initially, though. In the end, I felt led to trash it and actually sketch out my original thought, even though I only had the very basic form. Seeing it on paper, I was really surprised by how perfect it felt! I recreated it in Illustrator, plugged it in the brochure, and voila. I’m not going to underestimate my mind’s eye so much now.
The second big thing was the body text that goes in the four wavy frames. I had also built the frames early on and put filler text in them, because I was very unsure of what the true content should be. I was anxious about what my teacher and classmates would be thinking when they read it, and getting NOWHERE. Then I was given the thought, “this project is an act of worship to Me. What would you write in here if no one else was going to see it?”
Talk about relief! I made a new text box and started writing to Jesus instead of to men. It flowed. But here’s the confirmation, and I kid you not – when I pulled the inspired text into the wavy text frames, it was exactly the right length to fit there. I love Him!!
By the way, I don’t try to make projects that match the color scheme of my blog. Really, I don’t – it just happens.
What great preparation for our treasure hunt! We should get this translated and hand it out to participants instead of an A4 with Times New Roman declarations!
This brought tears to my eyes. It caused me to bow down and worship our Creator (literally). It’s been too long since I visited your blog (and I owe you a facebook note very soon!). It’s been a good but tiring summer for me…
Thank you for having the courage to let the Spirit teach you. You are speaking through to the world. You are being salt and light in your corner. HE IS being honored through you his Precious daughter.
Miss you.
I would LOVE to have a hard copy of this. Any chance of that??
hey, Rachel! Your mom told me about this, in light of our recent ‘excursions’ to heaven….way cool! GOOD WORK! Thanks for sharing. Brings real peace.
Love and blessings!
j