Fun & funky wire jewelry designed by Diane Ringel
You can see her work at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center in Frederick, Maryland and at her online sales sites:
www.wirejewelrycreations.ecrater.com
www.designsbydi.etsy.com
Diane Ringel
6818 Balmoral Court
New Market, MD 21774
Ringeld@comcast dot net
In the Beginning...
This bracelet is the result of trying to figure out what my spiritual gifts might be. I definitely have been blessed by God with the need to create things, but to use that “gift” to serve God has escaped me for years. I also have the gift of an enquiring mind, but it has been accompanied by a mind like a sieve. I have read so many amazing things about the word, but I would have a hard time remembering enough to be able to explain any of them coherently. Now I have a way to remember some of the amazing golden nuggets I have come across in my studies. Praise God!
In a small group a few weeks back, we were discussing what heaven might be like and I thought everyone would have a job that would be suited perfectly for them. What would my job be… Making jewelry -- amazingly beautiful and meaningful jewelry without regard for cost of materials - now that would be heaven!
I must have been still mulling that over when I went to bed because I woke up in the wee morning hours and got up to write down the idea for this bracelet before going back to sleep.
At least a year ago I got interested in the Hebrew language and how interesting it was that each of the letters didn’t just have a sound, but also had meanings and ideas behind them. After reading a book that went through letter by letter, an internet search turned up a blog post from BeautyoftheBible.com about the first words of the Bible - “In the beginning” and I was just floored by another of those “God” moments.
“In the beginning” in Hebrew is “barasheet” or biet, resh, aleph, shin, yod, tav.
Biet in the paleo Hebrew means house and looked like a tent.
Resh means head and looked like the side profile of a head.
Together those spell “bar” which means son. (The head of the house)
Aleph means strength, or first and looked like an ox. Aleph is letter used to symbolize God.
Shin looked like jagged teeth and means to consume or destroy
Yod looked like an arm and hand and means works, or hand
Tav looked like a cross and means mark or covenant.
So within the first word of God’s word you have the promise of the gospel - that the son of God would be destroyed with his hands on the cross. Or, the son of God would be destroyed by his work of the covenant. The promise of our redemption was right there at the beginning. Isn’t God’s word amazing!
I looked for the perfect lampwork beads to make this creation story bracelet and think they look like the galaxy with there purple and green swirls. They also have silver traces that look like stars. Each of the Hebrew letters is a tag with the Hebrew name and the meaning stamped below.
