The Love of God
We sang this song in church this past Sunday. While singing the 3rd stanza, my creative mind was at work. I created one page already but my mind wouldn’t let it go. And when I was even thinking about it during the hours of sleeplessness last night, I decided to try again. This is what I ended up with.
Process: I placed a black rectangle over the water and blended it with Soft Light mode and duplicated it. Then I placed a piece of parchment colored paper over the sky and used the Lighter Color blend mode. The water element being poured out of the ink well was filled with black. I added the rocks and land elements to this page. I left the land elements in the background higher than the water to try to depict the ocean draining dry and layered them behind the top black layer of ocean. The rocks on the left were duplicated and stacked. Then I inverted the color to give the water the black color.
Author: Frederick M. Lehman (1917)
Journaling reads (which is verse 3 of the song): Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made; were ev’ry stalk on earth a quill, and ev’ryone a scribe by trade; to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry; nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.
Chorus:
O love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure—the saints’ and angels’ song.
The rest of the original song is as follows (the verses showing in our hymnal are a bit different):
1 The love of God is greater far
than tongue or pen can ever tell;
it goes beyond the highest star,
and reaches to the lowest hell.
The wand'ring child is reconciled
by God's beloved Son.
The aching soul again made whole,
and priceless pardon won.
2 When ancient time shall pass away,
and human thrones and kingdoms fall;
when those who here refuse to pray
on rocks and hills and mountains call;
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
all measureless and strong;
grace will resound the whole earth round—
the saints’ and angels’ song.
The following information is taken from --www.hymntime.com/tch
Frederick Martin Lehman, 1868-1953
Born: August 7, 1868, Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Germany.
Died: February 20, 1953, Pasadena, California.
Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
Lehman emigrated to America with his family at age four, settling in Iowa, where he lived most of childhood. He came to Christ at age 11.
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