To be perfectly honest, I was dreading Thursday’s class. It took everything in me to buy the supplies and force myself to go to class. I felt a little bit better when I found out that we would pick a verse to paint on, because its hard to come up with something with nothing to go off of when you’re not enthusiastic about it, ya know? Once I chose my verse I was very pleasantly surprised at how easily ideas came to me. Now, I am in no way saying that what I came up with was well done by anyone else’s standards, but to me it made sense haha. As much as I didn’t look forward to the painting project, I cannot tell a lie, I actually found it enjoyable and useful. Trying to think of what to paint caused me to have to really think about the text and what I was trying to portray through the picture. Doing that seemed to bring the text to life more in my mind. The part of the passage I chose was in chapter two and it said “A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness, As the dawn is spread over the mountains”. So having to try and paint something that would convey that, I had to picture that kind of darkness and gloom and what it would look like, and that really helped me to get involved in the text, if that makes sense..? Anyways, I feel like I am starting to ramble, so I am going to stop. The main thing I was trying to say was that I actually enjoyed our painting project and it definitely helped to dig deeper into the text. Once again, this class is really taking me out of my box!