Restless Yearnings
This series is inspired by a visit with my elderly aunt, who has dementia. While taking a drive to the coast, she mentioned that driving towards the beautiful blue sky was like going to another country. It made me think of how C.S. Lewis describes this desire for our own far-off country as an inconsolable secret in all of us. That the elusive things longed for are not the thing itself but rather only the scent of a flower we have not found.
Scripture also says that those who live by faith are all “longing for a better country, a heavenly one.” (Hebrews 11:16) Just as the blue sky awakened something in Aunty, I too am drawn to beauty found in nature. Layer by layer, day by day, the works are compilations of yearnings for that far-off country yet to be found.
