MY LATEST DISCOVERIES

What Love Really Means

Love. It’s a word often used. But what does it mean? In a dictionary love is defined as ‘a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.’. Which doesn’t seem complete. Maybe this song by My Brightest Diamond comes closer to its meaning....

The Tenant of Wilfell Hall Illustration of moon and stars and trees, Anne Bronte
An Encounter with God by Anne Bronte

“God help me now!” I murmured, sinking on my knees among the damp weeds and brushwood that surrounded me, and looking up at the moonlit sky, through the scant foliage above. It seemed all dim and quivering now to my darkened sight. My burning, bursting heart strove to pour forth...

Walt Whitman on grass, life and death
What is Grass? – Walt Whitman’s Beautiful Answer to this Question.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. ...

New Ways of Seeing – John Berger

“Botticelli’s Venus and Mars used to be a unique image which it was only possible to see in the room where it was actually hanging. Now, it’s image or detail of it, can be seen in a million different places at the same time. ...

john berger our faces mu heart brief as photos illustration
Thoughts on Hope at the Post Office – By John Berger

“The post office at Auxonne is small and the postmistress has blue eyes. I have been there only twice. The first time was to send you a parcel; as the postmistress weighed it on the scale, I imagined your hands opening it....

Hidden with Christ in God?

This scripture is so interesting and mysterious. Did you know that you died when You invited Jesus into your life? And that the moment you died your life was hidden with Christ in God. Wait, where? I don’t really know, but it definitely means that it is the safest place...

Painting of the place where Jesus was buried. You see a tomb surrounded by a beautiful garden full of life. It is inspired by John 19. The itle of this painting is Where He was Crucified There Was a Garden
Was Jesus’ Tomb in a Beautiful Garden?

In my mind the place where Jesus was buried was always a sandy, empty place. I was surprised when I read this passage in John. Wondering if this would’ve been a real full, green, cultivated garden....

donald miller a million miles illustration
You Are Not Who You Were Last November

“The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.”...

napoleon dynamite happy hands club illustration
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Hi, I’m Merith 

The person behind The Dance Part. I love creating, reading and nature and I like to believe that nothing is impossible. 

I live in a little town in The Netherlands and have a boyfriend from India :)
 
Life is full of surprises.
Keep looking!

The Dance Part is a place
where I share my discoveries
about God with you – translated into artworks.


Why?
I hope my findings will bring you
to your own discoveries about God
and help you to keep on seeing
the world full of wonder and surprise.