Thursday 31 January 2013

Thursday afternoon.

 Good day and welcome this mid afternoon to my blog. Took mum to church this morning and then, our brother David treated our mother, our brother Richard and myself to a carvery meal at a public tavern.    

                                                    I took this shot in the mens room, as I
                                                    found it humourous that the sign was made
                                                    by a company called Salmon products!  
                                                    Below. Good job panda, we need help.
                                                    David, Mum and Richard. House sold.

                                                    Below is me holding a cute clothes peg.


                      Below is some of my painting, but I will do an extra blog in five minutes with more.
                           (no extra blog, but have added pictures to what was posted earlier!)















                                          These below come from the one above!











Bye for now, but know that you are loved and appreciated. Your bro Peter.

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Today I drove down the road and took my mum to bingo at the church.

Evening Post

 Hi there. Good job I had my camera mounted in its hands free position as I drove down the road


                                                    Liked these below. for the shapes tones and texture.






                                                    Below its shadowman traversing two shots!


 These 2 work well together                                                                                as well!



                                                    Above are four of the women attending the bingo.
My mum and these women depended on me to lift and set up the tables and chairs, as well as to drive two of them. Good job. Good boy.

What did I do when I got home though? I just got out a nice `peace` of paper and painted.

RESULT I should say, but you will have to wait untill tomorrows blog.

Good night good peeps.Ya bro Peter








Tuesday 29 January 2013

Today I am humble and gay and largehearted; carrying on from yesterday.

                            This shot above I call, `A gentle wave from tomorrows blog.`
                            I just had to add it as it both shows the wonderful effect of 
                                                        the use of touching the painting up (oo that makes me tingle)
                                                        with a soft gell (gloss), as well as how viewing work from different
                                                        angles can give us a whole lot more than we would think when
                                                         we only look at a work from one perspective!                    

Greatings my brothers and sisters. I didnt know if I was going to be able to post this, as my computer wouldnt let me log into google in the normal way. So I got on the internet via firefox! Blessings and love to you all.

Feel free to skip this writing below and go straight to the artwork. This writing is intended for those who visit the site and like me are interseted in a more metaphysical dimension to existance.

The words as often are those which I share come to you through me, but are yet not of me. From me to you now, yet from another to me beforehand. This is why I shall carry on from yesterdays blog firstly the other way around, by saying to you to skip this writing and scroll down to see my latest painting, if that is you primary reason for visiting my blog. Hey, believe me I am not knocking you if this is the case. You will be in good company, as my eldest sister - who i do love dearly - is not one for spiritual reading.

Its just that I need to grow in denying my`self ` more. So if you read the word sin, or sinner lower down, do not be put off from reading this. The word sin represents any thought, word or deed, which is not done in our life with the presence of God in our mind and heart. Well thats the main way I understand it for me.   Now my brothers and sisters. As I said, these words I am sharing with you, were mostly written way before I was born by Gerald Vann.O.P. In an old book which LORD PAKENHAM said was one of the finest books of the century. This book which cost two shillings and sixpence, is entiltled `The Divine Pity`
Gerald Vann OP was born in 1906 and died after a long illness in 1963. He was a British Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. He joined the Dominican order in 1923, was ordained a priest in 1929. Writing more than twenty books before dying after long illness. Well my brothers and sisters, I have just lit a candle for him and it is also for my late wife tracy. Also my Aunt Rita who died last month.
  I shall carry on now where I left off yesterday, with the proviso that those of you without need to read this spiritual meat of the blog can skip to the desert, which is my art below.
 The sacrament of penance should make us humble and gay and largehearted: humble because of the sense of sin, gay because pettiness keeps us isolated from God and self-centred, but the life and the freedom are given us that we mey serve God and His family and live in God`s love of His family. But we have to be humble and gay and large-hearted precisely in our mourning; if we obey the Spirit it is these things we shall find in the discipline of the confessional and the sorrow that attends it: it is because, through the power of the sacrament and the gift of the Spirit, we can learn to choose discomfort that we learn these family virtues; and so the family ties bind us more strongly and our love grows and the negative side of penance turns quickly into the positive, and we learn gradually the key to the christian paradox, we learn to love not just the utility or the pleasantness of some things for us but the goodness and beauty of all things in themselves.
  It is this idea of the growth of true love as opposed to false or partial love that gives us the clue to the christian doctrine of mortification. To say "Happy or they who mortify themselves and take up their cross daily", but we go astray and forget the beatitude unless we remember that mortification must be based on a real love and awareness of things within the framework of the love of God and Hiss will, and that detachment in general is not insensitivity but love - real love, the love that is defined and measured by Love.
 We must be ready to choose discomfort when Love demands it. And of course Love does demand it, first of all because the self-seeking which is so deeply rooted in us is an offence against love.
 The first use to which we must put suffering in general and mortification in particular is known as asceticism: training ourselves to be obedient to God by denying our own desires, so that flesh may become less rebellious to spirit and the whole being may, therefore, be free for its service of God.
  Secondly, suffering helps us to expiate: we right the balance of justice which our sins have upset, by voluntarily suffering something for the love of God; and indeed this function of suffering need not be confined to stisfying for our own sins merely but may have its share in helping to expiate for the sins of the world. Nor may we allow ourselves to think that, as is sometimes said, this whole idea of expiation fy suffering is a practical assertion that pain is something good in itself, something in which God delights for its own sake: there is a deep-rooted instinct in us which makes us feel that those who, by cruelty, have made others suffer should be make to suffer themselves, and it is an instict which is supported by theology. To be cruis is to increase the evil in the world, to increase the total of violent self-assertion; and it must be put right by a corresponding act in the opposite direction, an act in which the proud self is humbled and made to accept what before it rejected, the existence of an absolute standard-of justice and goodness and love-to which  man must conform. So it was that the total self-assertion of the world in defiance of God was expiated by the total self-dedication, the total obedience, of Christ; and it is in this act of expiation that those who suffer now may share-and , if they are living in the love of God, will want to share.
 For, thirdly, it is part of love to want to share in the sufferings of those we love (just as the fact of sharing others` sufferings can cause us to love them, or to love them more). If we can grow sufficiently in the love of Christ we shall begin to want to share in His sufferings simply because they are His sufferings, and incidentally, through this loving and redemptive pain for the world we ourselves shall grow in our love for that world in and for Him.
 St. James tells us that trials should be a joy to us because they are the material of patience, which is the "perfect work." Your asceticism should make you patient with yourself; not worrying about your lack of progress, though sorrowing over it; doing the best you can with the ordinary humble things God gives you to do, and leaving the rest to Him. And it should make you humbly patient, therefore, towards the Providence of God in every detail: learning to accept in peace and calm whatever things come to you, precisely because they come as part of that inclusive Providence - learning, therefore, more and more to care and not to care.
 So the effect of mortification, of the sacrament of penance, so the gift of knowledge, will be not to crush the personality but to free it, and to fill it with strength and peace and joy, and so enable it to seek God more whole-heartedly, to begin to live in His love. At the same time it will be, not to crush your love of creatures, but, on the contrary, to make it more real and deep. It will be, finally, not to withdraw you from God`s family but to make you love and serve it better and better for His sake and in His sight; till at the end you can say of the whole world the words of the psalmist: "I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth."

That is the end part of chapter five. Firstly I shall say that one thought which came to me whilst typing this to share with those of you who read this with me, is that like the monks of old who typed out copies of the bible and other holy writings, it seeps into a deeper part of the mind of the one who is both reading and more so the one writing/typing, than if one was to just read, or listen! Secondly they would be copying it again and again until they had to move on to different work. Just as repitition of bad habits can become ingrained, much greater for us is learn and repeat good habits. I once awoke not too long ago from sleep and was speaking in my sleep the Lords prayer and so of course I finished it off awake!



My beloved brothers and sisters here we are at last to share my latest artwork.

                       To different shots of the same as yet untitled work.
    Although the above painting is untitled it certainly has action/passion going on in it and was done in close proximity to this one below, which unuasually does have a title; "Lovers"!


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    Yep. This one below is untitled. If it had one then - O I painted this a few hours ago  and have only just now seen some stuff going on in it which I really like and hadnt seen  before. Its got action and adventure, horror, drama. Plus passion and romance.  I know some smart alec will say what about the comedy? I reply, `You got me, I shall have to, oops, you may find a slice amongst the other stuff going on in the one below!
                         







Blessings peace and love to you all and know that I am so happy to be able to have painted these works and typed the blog. My thanks to you for letting me present it to you. Know that you are loved and pass this on.
Your bro Peter.





















Tuesday and minimal blog. Or is it. Should we hunger for more?

STOP PRESS.. First my art for those who do not require to peruse the spiritual text which I have been dwelling on today.


                     The above work which is pictured
                 on its side has been overhauled
                 and reworked, as seen below.


                                                    Here I am looking at my art with inspiration.






   
                          This is the tissue paper from the artwork
                                                     which is now wrapped into a ball and
                                                       hanging from a light. Tempary residence here. Like me! 
THINK GOOD THOUGHTS SPEAK GOOD WORDS AND DO GOOD ACTIONS.

Good day to you my brothers and sisters. Blessings  and joy be upon you. Also exaltation's (did I spell that right!)  to those who do not see this blog, yet strive to shine loves light into the darkness. Dispel gloom and depression. How do I do it. What is my spell? Spell or incantation. Spelling is also the right letters for words. Now what are the positive words to spell and or if we like, incant. I go with; " I am healthy wealthy wise, I am love incarnate." In saying this, it is possible to see all good as coming from God. I AM is also another name for God. One of my favourite verses from the Holy Bible, which I meditate on, or incant, is `I no longer live, yet Christ lives in me.` The actual verse may be slighter longer, but I adapt it for use in denying my self or ego.
Otherwise I could see others as being separate from me and existing is a slightly different universe. But no, I do see this universe as uni (one) verse (song) , I must not get self-complacent by being superior.  Otherwise, as St. Augustine remarks on the stealthy way in which pride can creep in without our noticing it, and destroy what would otherwise have been good deeds. To be intolerant of other people`s weaknesses, forgetting our own; to give way to the temptation to show people up; to fall into the self-deception of criticising in other people the faults we suffer from ourselves-sometimes it is possible to find out our own predominant failings by seeing what failings most arouse our indignation in other people - all these are ways of letting ourselves be conquered by self-complacency, and they can, in consequence, be very serious.
 And if you are thus self-complacent you will, of course, find it difficult to forgive others their trespasses. But if you are poor in spirit and meek and filled with the sense of sin, and if you have learnt to mourn in this sense also that you are ready to accept as God`s gift not only the enjoyable things   
He sends but the trying ones, and those trials in particular which come from the thoughtlessness, the ingratitude, the spite, of other people, and to accept them in the realisation that indeed you deserve nothing better, then indeed you find it easy to forgive, or rather, you scarcely think in terms of forgiving, for you do not think in terms of injuries, And in and by this mourning, too, you will be comforted; for through it you will learn to see more and more clearly and deeply the omnipresence of God, and to achieve a deeper identity of your will with His.
 This is a context in which we shall be well advised to keep our eyes open for the petty sins which, precisely because they are so petty, con be dangerous and grave. The sense of sin (or as I find it easier to comprehend, separation from God.) teaches us that we are each responsible for all, because we are a family; it teaches us to ask ourselves how far the failure of the family is due to our own failure; and it reminds us that family squabbles tend to be petty, and that just because they are petty they can be a poison in the family life. The sacrament of penance should make us humble, gay and large-hearted. To be continued, by us all.
Or is it! 

Blessings peace and love to you my brothers and sisters. Your bro Peter.