Love and Life - Framed Print

This artwork was commissioned for Highway Church St Mary’s and was designed to capture sharing God’s abundant love and life in our communities. From the beginning of creation God breathed life into humans and loved them abundantly.

Throughout scripture God encourages humans to choose life by choosing to follow Him. Despite humanity turning away from God He relentlessly pursues humans in love- John 3:16 “For God so loved the world he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”.

When we receive God’s love and life, we become part of his church and, in turn share God’s love and life with each other and with people who have not yet received Christ. The centre circles of the artwork (the yellow/orange dots) represent God and his love flowing out. The white lines coming off the centre circle represent the role of the Holy Sprit, connecting and guiding his people and church.

The small brown circles around the centre circle represent Jesus Christ. The centre of the artwork shows the trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) connected and then flowing out. The Boomerangs represent the church, they are facing in towards the centre to reflect the church facing God and seeing and understanding God through the life and love of Jesus.

The symbols on the boomerangs represent some of the attributes of the church and how the church lives out God’s love and life. The spears represent the word of God, the shield represents faith, the sun represents love and the clap sticks represent worship and joy.

The blossoming gum tree represents life, growing in our journey with God and being connected to him. It is also a representation of John 15:5 It is a reminder that when the church’s foundation is rooted in Christ it bears much fruit and is able to share God’s love and life with the community. The four pools of water in the corners of the artwork represent the Holy Spirit. John 7:37-39. The Holy Spirit flows out bringing refreshment, wisdom and grace.