Bluebird

This postcard contains a little bluebird behind a vintage lock mechanism. The bird represents the human soul, longing to fly. The lock represents what holds us in place, captured as we are within our small hopes and our fears. Love cannot exist without freedom, and only freedom allows love to flourish; and so we were created by God with freewill. The paradox is longing to be free, yet freely choosing bondage. Because life without Christ is bondage and blindness; we are held in captivity by our delusions of some strange self-sovereignty, subject to fitful dreams. And we innately find this confinement unbearable, against our nature. All is fleeting, all is vanity, as it says in the Psalms. We live in the very valley of the shadow of death. Christ knocks. He waits for us to turn the key, to let him in. And therein will be our freedom.

This postcard was made with mixed papers, ink, and vintage design elements.