Got Sentimental?

But seriously...

I don't really know how you can be a Christian, look at this picture, and not think of God. It is Christian sentimentality at its best, and quite honestly, even though it accomplishes its purpose, I can't stand how it is nonetheless a portrayal of God. Should it be what makes us think of God, and can we wrap him up into a nicely composed, graphically appealing picture? I think we should already be careful with how we portray God, and to put him into sentimental, everyday, easily mistaken for a water ad-type picture is just a big mistake. He is so far beyond this, and anything we could try to smash his immeasurable character into with our human ambition.

I guess I have realized that in completing this assignment, that I failed in almost every way trying to portray God as the deity he is. As he should be. As I imagine him. God is so much more of a concept than this sentimental, emotionally charged photograph that I produced. I am bothered by how cliche it is, and how it doesn't do for me what it should. Granted it might cause the correct emotional response from other viewers and other people at different points in their respective lives, but it failed me at this point in mine. Every other picture I chose to speak of on my blog exhibit our God as a powerful, expansive reality and sadly, my picture encapsulates all to swiftly the character of something that should never be encapsulated.