Trodden Weed

I have always found the work of Andrew Wyeth to be so evocative; as though every painting was full of echoing thoughts in the texture of the paint. Even the prints of his works cause people to stop an get lost in his universe of life made in to paint.

I keep little postcards of things that inspire in my little closet in the library of the school where I am slowly working through seminars. One such postcard is a copy of "Trodden Weed" where my eyes frequently rest. When I thought to create a new blog, I hoped its texture and evocative title it would in some way capture the way I want to approach missiology.

I like the word "trodden" because I love the dying art of past participles, but specifically this one, in that it speaks of a past of treading though the world, as those created to cross cultures to share the life and teachings of Christ do. As a researcher I am not treading much myself at the moment. But I am learning to track trodden paths to see what there is to discover. I do hope I discover something worth writing - and reading - but in the meantime I will write here for the discipline of it.