A Walk Through the Woods in Autumn. Sergei Vinogradov Autumn creates space for dying. What is left untended in the heat of summer needs mending in the fall. For earth and flesh must keep their seasons and their liturgy. The […]
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Beauty in the Dying
Winslow Homer. Autumn. National Gallery of Art Autumn creates space for dying. What is left untended in the heat of summer Needs mending in the Fall. For earth and flesh must keep their seasons And their liturgy. The leaves […]
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Edvard Munch. Melancholy. Art Museum of Bergen. I am alone, waiting in the tomb. There is nothing else I can do. I try to believe the darkness and stillness here will allow something new to be resurrected on the other […]
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Felix Vallotton. The Wind. National Gallery of Art. While tending his sheep one day, Moses saw a fantastic sight; a bush was burning but was not being consumed by the flame. As he stepped closer to look at the anomaly, […]
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Alex Venezia. Haunting. In every generation, great preachers, writers, and theologians have taught us about the eternal things of God as they have understood them. In every generation, too, there have been a few very ordinary people who have been […]
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David Inshaw. She Did Not Turn. Over the infinity of space and time, the infinite Love of God comes to possess us. We can consent to receive or refuse. Surprisingly, this Love offering comes in the form of suffering—in the […]
Read More about Use Your Pain To End Your PainA Birthday Letter From Betty
I am a February child Born in Winter’s season. I came to earth—no choice—I was misdirected In a month of silver spirits and of snows. The cold of winter is not all I know. I have traveled all life’s […]
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Mark Rothko. No. 3. Yale University Art Gallery At the heart of our reality there is neither an endless recycling of a bland and sterile existence nor a silent and mute indifference, but rather One Who loves. In giving us […]
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