Cartoons with something to say . . .

You'll probably end up with cake!

In 2006 I wrote The Daddy Song while living in Argentina.  The next year when I was in China I illustrated the slides for it.   I added a really rough recording and posted the video on YouTube and GodTube where I was surprised by how many hits it got.  (Yes, I realize people were probably looking for Dennis Jernigan’s song :) )

I don’t have a new video of The Daddy Song yet, but I am ready and raring to do it live.  I have power point slides and a guitar, and I’m looking for kids and grownups that want to worship with me using this media.  Recently I’ve been updating the slides, trying out new colors. So The Daddy Song is getting a makeover.

If you’re interested in seeing the original check it out here.

He is worthy of extravagant worship!

Cartoons in worship?!?! Is it necessary? Absolutely not!  But our God is worthy of extravagant worship.  In the summer of 1996, when I was a rising senior at the University of North Carolina I was seeking the Lord for direction about my future, and He used my curiosity to draw me into a more intimate relationship with Him. I was hungry for His presence and very interested in the Toronto Blessing, but that summer a church in upstate New York that been touched by that movement was as close as I was going to get.   I attended a weekend worship conference there, and at one evening meeting the presence of God was so strong that we couldn’t stand.  The chairs were moved to the side and everyone laid down on the carpet as the prayer team ministered to us all. The worship team played Holy Love, and before the prayer team had even reached me I saw a vision in my mind’s eye of a cartoon dove flying to the music around cartoon cliffs and swooping in and out of a cartoon ocean in a way that reminded me a little of  Jonathan Livingston Seagull.  I felt like the Holy Spirit was inviting me to create something similar to what I was seeing.

Although I have enjoyed doodling since I was a little girl, at the time I was majoring in English and not drawing at all.  I wasn’t doing much with music either.  Since then I haven’t really had any formal training, but this dream has compelled me to develop these skills as best as I know how. I have gotten discouraged with both art and music, laid them on the altar, and given them up, but this dream is an Isaac that God has resurrected again and again.  So here I am, trying to answer Chris Rice’s question with my art.  What if cartoons got saved?  At the end of his song, he concludes “there’s a lot of praising to do, but cartoons weren’t made for that.”  Well, I beg to differ, Mr. Rice.  It is our job, but I am convinced that cartoons can really help!