"Before them fire devours,
behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,
behind them, a desert waste—
nothing escapes them."
So, I am not very good at painting, so I was very scared about our activity so I asked around. One of my friends was in the class last year and told me were going to have to paint a verse that stuck out to us in Joel. When I heard this I actually knew which verse I was going to paint about. It was the verse that stuck out to me in the first place when I read Joel the first time and when I read it again it made perfect sense to draw it. Because I was so prepared it actually sort of made me lose the meaning of the assignment in the beginning. But Professor Corrigan not letting us talk sort of forced me to concentrate on the assignment and think about it. It really helped picturing and then finally seeing it on paper. It made the verse stand out even more. Just seeing the green and then all of a sudden fire sort of makes you picture it in real life. When I read it I actually pictured the gardens at lake mirror because I am sure the Garden of Eden was much bigger, but I imagine it being beautiful like that with all the flowers and water flowing. I actually find it a very scary verse and when Professor Corrigan says a lot of Joel is poetry it makes me wonder if this too is just a metaphor of what God will do. It is hard to think of God hurting us and His land, but a lot in the Old testament is just that.
What I hear you saying is that you find what professor Corrigan said about Joel "being a poem" very concerning because a lot of peotry is metaphorical and in this case it is a painful poem that shows God's wrath on his chosen people. It makes us think twice about making big decisions...huh
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