Emily Verdoorn is a mixed-media artist from Des Moines, Iowa.  For as long as she can remember, Emily has loved drawing and making things.  What was unselfconscious play as a child grew into a way of paying attention: to more deeply press into the life of the world around her, to grow in affection, to be awake to the world charged with the presence of Christ.  After receiving her BFA at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, Emily spent some time participating in various intentional communities and ministries such as L’Abri, Brazos Fellows, and Summit Ministries which have also informed her work.  You can find Emily’s work and process online at emilyverdoornstudio.com and on instagram @emilyverdoornstudio.

You Belong 

by Matthew Clark

Wait, wait, before you give up

Breath, breath remember what’s true 

When feel like you’re a stranger

And you can’t find a friend 

CHORUS

You belong to someone who loves you 

You belong to someone who loves you 

You belong, you belong 

You were made to belong… to someone who loves you 

Somedays the clouds will not part 

Most days there’s a fog on your heart 

But you’ve been around enough 

To know the daylight will come 

BRIDGE

Someone who’s written your name of his hands 

Someone who laid down his life 

Someone who waited with tears in his eyes

And kept watch down the road for his runaway child 

I know with the world like it is 

Hope tends to slip through your fists 

But the truth is the truth 

Though the whole world tell lies