Easter Sunday, 2023

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Madeline Mobley

Watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and stencil

This scene is symbolic of a glimpse of the edge of the glory that is promised to us throughout
scripture. We sit at that edge, His beautiful earthly creation all around us, in expectation and always drawn to the promise of our eternal home. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says,

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

We wait and dream of the time when we will gasp
in wonder,

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even also I am known.”
—1 Corinthians 13:13

The motivation for this piece was entirely unexpected because the idea was gifted to me, set in my consciousness fully complete in concept and design, one morning during worship several months ago.

Since then I’ve thought about what this image means to me. I have very eternal feelings in my heart, yet the focal point is the earth, God’s creation. In the image it’s as if we are in the heavenly realm looking down on what we used to have, where we are meant to be.

We also remember those who have passed before us, in expectation of our reunion, when we “may take hold of the life that really is life” (1 Timothy 6:19).