Introduction "God Is Hu?" is a book that celebrates the wondrous beauty and colour of the world. It tells the story of how the world was created with the magic of God's imaginary paintbrush. From the smallest pebble to the splendour of the sea, God fills in the tiniest details and the most sweeping landscapes with joy, laughter and love.

Foreword

(by Fr Paul Pang CSSR)

"God is Hu?" This is a question every man, woman and child asks, for we are all religious people at heart, whether we admit it or not. Sometimes we frame the question in the wrong way and we tragically end up with the wrong answer: The god whom we worship is pleasure, wealth or power.

St. Paul in his letter to the Philippians lamented:
"Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things."

The eyes of the unbelieving are blinded, and their ears are made deaf by the god of the present age so that they are unable to see and hear the gospel proclaimed in, and through, God’s creation. The words of the poet Francis Thompson describes well the sorry lot of so many of our contemporaries in our boringly secularized age:
"Tis ye, tis your estranged faces
That miss the many splendour’d thing."

Many look for God in the unbridled, sordid indulgence of the senses as the satisfaction of all their hearts’ desires. In this achievement-oriented age, others strive frenetically for success and recognition as though their very beatitude depended upon their insanity. Still others yearn with a deep, insatiable hunger for power and dominance as the be all and end all of their existence.

In such a world, estranged from God, we need poets, mystics and artists to guide our eyes into, albeit only a glimpse, of “the many-splendour’d thing”: our creator singing and dancing with exuberant joy in the works of His hand.

Susanna offers the reader an answer to the question: “God is Hu?” through her paintings and reflections in this book. She would not hesitate to accept being recognized as an artist. But she may have reservations about being called a poet or a mystic. Her love for her children and grandchildren is deep and tender, and through their eyes she has caught a glimpse of the Kingdom, for children are the purest artists, the purest poets, and the purest mystics. We too are invited to see the Creator God through the eyes of little children, in Susanna's work.

"And a little child shall lead them." Isaiah 11:6