finished…and loving it! several people inquired as to where i got the idea for a “god box” and i incorrectly cited julia cameron. it just so happened that as i was finishing my god box, i was also re-reading sark’s “transformation soup: healing for the splendidly imperfect”...which is where is in fact got the idea for a god box. BUT Sark got the idea from Anne Lamott…so anyway, the idea’s been around. Sark calls her god box her “faith in action” which is a really nice way of putting it.
what i really like about mine is that is has a mirror inside, so that when i open it, i confront myself directly by using it. it’s also got a little drawer on the bottom.
i’d like to deconstruct the box for a moment. to be honest, i didn’t consciously create the box as such, but it was definitely like art therapy, where i just let my instincts go with it. but now that it’s finished, i see some interesting points to the box.
first, i put my first name above the mirror. on the interior, i painted a picture of a house and a tree—something that looks like what i used to draw when i was a kid.
on the little drawer, i painted my middle name, my vietnamese name, “lien” and inside the drawer, i glued a piece of the fake money that you burn during chinese/vietnamese new year for ancestors. i also painted it orange, which is a color i associate with vietnam and dreams i have about the motherland. on the backside of the drawer, i painted my last name “worrall,” and on the bottom of the drawer, i painted the word “inside.”
the thing is certainly colourful. for more pictures, you can check it out on flickr.
