Sunday 27th May and I cant get two latest paintings on the blog.

STAY CALM

Good day my brothers and sisters. Three times this morning - and its only 6.52am - I have taken photos of my latest paintings and put them on the computer. BUT CAN THEY NOW BE LOCATED! 
No. Then that was a rhetorical question.


Thats the third time I have taken photos and downloaded them with a title and then they are not on the file. So thats it for now. Better wait until my other son is here and see if he can help!

                                                        THE CHURCH
What the soul is to the body . . .
Christians are not distinguished from the rest of mankind in locality or in speech or customs. But while they dwell in the cities of Greeks and barbarians, and follow the native customs in dress and food, yet the constitution of their own citizenship is marvellous, and contradicts expectation. They dwell in their countries, but only as sojourners; they bear their share as citizens, and they endure all hardships as strangers. Every foreign country their fatherland, and ever fatherland foreign. They marry like other men and beget children ; but they do not expose their offspring. They have their meals, but not their wives in common. They are in the flesh, but do not live after the flesh. Their existence is on earth, their citizenship in heaven. They obey  the laws and surpass them in their lives They love all men and are persecuted by all. They are ignored and condemned, put to death and endowed with life. They are beggars, who make many rich, in want of everything and abounding in everything. They are dishonoured and in their dishonour glorified. They are abused and vindicated. Reviled, they bless; insulted , they pay their respects. They are punished for doing food, and rejoice in doing this, as thereby quickened to life. The Jews wage war with them as aliens, while the Greeks persecute them, and yet those who hate them cannot tell the reason for their hostility to them.
  In a word, what the soul is in the body, this the Christians are in the world. The invisible soul is guarded in the visible body: so Christians are recognised in the world, and yet their religion remains invisible. The flesh hates  the soul and goes to war with it, although it receives no wrong, because it is forbidden to indulge in pleasures; so the world hates Christians, although it receives no wrong from them, because they set themselves against its pleasures.
 The soul is enclosed in the body, and yet holds the body together; so Christians are in the world as in a prison, and yet they themselves hold the world together.
                                                                                              EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS

If I am sharing the photo below with you for the second time in week, just because I want to assert to myself and the universe that I am alright with it and alright with myself. Sorted and centred.

Yes it was a long time coming. I am here and yet I am not here! 

Epistle to Diognetus

This was written at my guess, over one thousand years ago. Yet it is getting to some of the fundamental  issues than only just now some western physicists are realising. If we Christians and I would have too also assert some spiritual beings who are on a different journey, not even necessarily human, can see that we are in this present universe, but not of it, then we can begin to understand it all! I dont know if you have heard of the saying, that we are in the universe, but not of it? The soul will be invisible and unmeasurable in this space and time. Yet it exists within us here and yet can also be at the same time within another dimension outside of this one, where it rests in God!

Members one of another

`And when one member suffers, all the members suffer with it`(I Cor. 12.26): this is said of the Church. If we do not feel this, we are not within the Church.
  Holiness and knowledge are given by the spirit of sobornost. Ignorance and sin are characteristics of isolated individuals. Only in the unity of the Church do we find these defects overcome. Man finds his true self in the Church alone: not in the helplessness of spiritual isolation but in the strength of his communion with his brothers and with his Saviour. The Church is a living organism, intergrated by a common love, forming an absolute unity in Christ of the living and the dead.
                                                                                    Father Alexander Elchaninov

So my brother and sisters, it is just passing eight in the morning, here in Luton, England. The sun is shining and all is well with the world.  Have a good day and know that you are loved. I will not give up on trying to put my latest artwork on a following blog.  Your bro Peter