My Vessels Series relates to my Incarnation Series as well as my Nets of God Series. The sovereign God, who came on the waters of time, created time and the universe by water (2Peter 3:5). He “became flesh” (Incarnation) and entered this universe as a human vessel to rescue / capture (Nets of God) the vessels he created for his glory.

Vessels are metaphors for humankind created in God’s image to hold God’s wondrous grace. These living vascular systems are carried through “the waters of time.” The Nets of God Series is inspired by the Banding poem by Suzanne Rhodes (see below).

Banding
The nets of God hang in every wild place
to catch the unwary migrant, one with the skull
still soft the journey barely started,
another to fall from the sky on the ten thousandth mile,
but when he holds one of those small terrified
bodies like a jewel between his thumb and forefinger
and unfans the wing to measure it, secretly admiring
the bars he conceived to catch his own hungry eye
and the little claw foot he rings with a coded band
that numbers the feathers and weds him forever
to the pulse in his palm that recalls his own heaving heart
the day he flew into a net and hung there thirsting
in the woods where only a wasp moved, flicking cobalt wings,
when he lets go, when he flings what he has marked

into emptiness, he follows the speck with his eye
to South America and farther, to white unmapped fields
known intimately in the mind of one who flies.