As part of the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival’s mission to champion creativity and celebrate community, we will be hosting a ‘mosaic workshop’ on Saturday 1st June between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. (The picture below is illustrative only – the mosaic will be personalised and designed by the community.)
The idea is for the community to be involved in creating a tile mosaic which can be exhibited at the arts’ festival on Saturday 28th September at Astrea Academy Dearne (the new name for the secondary school in Goldthorpe!) This mosaic, which will be started at GPCC, will tour other community groups until it’s completed.
As I’ve been thinking about mosaics, I see more and more how mosaics are rather illustrative of our lives. A mosaic is usually made from broken tile pieces which are fitted together through the skill of the designers to form a beautiful picture. Our lives often feel like they are made up of broken pieces. Life has a habit of shattering our hopes, dashing our dreams and leaving us with sharp, jagged edges which don’t feel at all beautiful. We wonder what God is doing with these disparate pieces and how He can create anything meaningful or beautiful from them. But He is the master artist, the One who assembles ‘all our broken, shattered pieces/ More beautiful than I had ever known.’ (‘Long Live The King’, Aaron Shust) Or, as Rend Collective puts it, ‘though I’m broken, I am running into the arms of love,.’ (‘Joy’, Rend Collective)
Come along to the mosaic workshop in June and have fun adding pieces to this community mosaic… but remember also that God is making a beautiful mosaic picture out of your life and even the raggedy tiny broken pieces of your life can be fitted into His beautiful picture, into the Bride of Christ.