Secret Pages

Today this song has been lingering in my thoughts: “Video Killed the Radio Star.”

Let's explore why...

There was a time when people listened before they watched. A voice traveled through the air without an image attached to it. The listener could not see the person speaking or singing. They simply received the voice and allowed something to form within their own imagination.

Then the picture arrived.

 
What had once been heard inwardly became something seen outwardly. Appearance began to shape identity. The image became so powerful that it could overshadow the voice behind it. Even lip syncing became a thing, it overshadowed the true voice.

That thought came to mind when I thought of God, then as I looked at my first art piece for this blog, Secret Pages.

You can see the butterflies, old book pages, fabric, branches, thread, and many layers. You may feel something when you look at it. You may even form your own understanding of what it represents.

But the artwork cannot fully reveal its own identity.

Only the artist knows why each piece was chosen, what lies beneath the layers, and what vision gave the work its beginning. The viewer can study the surface, but unless the artist reveals the thought behind it, part of its meaning will remain hidden.

Perhaps the same is true of many things.

We are naturally drawn to what we can see. We notice appearance, structure, beauty, and form. Yet what is visible does not always reveal what is living within.

"Blessed are those who did not see, and yet believed." — John 20:29

Spiritually, I think about the difference between the hidden work of God and the visible church that humanity has built around it. Buildings, titles, traditions, symbols, and outward appearances can become the picture, the image, the distraction. In time, that picture begins to speak louder than the Voice it was supposed to point toward.

The Voice has not truly been destroyed, but it can become buried beneath the image...the shiny object.

A created form cannot fully explain its Creator. Just as an artwork needs its artist to reveal the vision behind it, spiritual things cannot be understood by appearance alone. We must listen for the One who knows what lies beneath every layer.

That is the invitation:

Pause before deciding what something is.

Look beyond the surface.
Listen for the Voice beyond the picture.

Hidden pages are not empty.
They are simply waiting to be opened—

To be heard.

Here is where My Creative World begins—a place where creativity, thought, and the things hidden beneath the surface can quietly meet.

"Jehovah is in His holy temple.

Let all the earth be silent before Him.”

— Habakkuk 2:20

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~ Ram Dass

🌿 May you find a little peace today... and perhaps a thought worth carrying home.

~ Peace, Love and Joy ~