Good day to you my brothers and sisters. This morning I went for an hour and a half art therapy session and will post beneath the painting I done whilst there as well as a nice old church I photographed on the way.
about me, my progress and an interesting dream that I had last night.
I am hoping that it wont flatten too much whilst drying. What is meant to be though
will be!
I like this painting as it is bright and colourful. A phenomenological map or portrait
of how I felt upon awaking and am still keeping in touch with now in the present.
Last, but not least, the fish on Friday bit.
Putting on the glory of creation
We do not want merely to see beauty. We want something else which can
hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into
it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is
why we have peopled the air and earth and water with gods and goddesses and
nymphs and elves - that, though we cannot, yet these projections can, enjoy
themselves that beauty, grace and power of which Nature is the image. For if
we take the imagery of Scripture seriously, if we believe that God will one day
give us the morning star and cause us to put on the splendour of the sun, then
we may surmise that both the ancient myths and the modern poetry, so false as
history, may be very near the truth as prophecy. At present we are on the outside
of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of
morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the
splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the
rumour that it will not always be so. Someday, God willing, we shall get in. When
human souls have become perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation
is in its lifeless obedience, they will put on its glory, or, rather, that greater glory of
which Nature is only the first sketch. We are summoned to pass in through Nature,
beyond her, into that splendour which she fitfully reflects.
C. S. LEWIS
Well my brothers and sisters I hope that you have enjoyed this blog. If the sun is not not shining where you are, then perhaps you will take some comfort that it is here and that I am praying for you to feel the light within you and help in its transformation of us all whom turn away from the dark lifelessness which has no
energy of its own and yet would try through subterfuge and lies to turn our light to dark!
So keep on guard against negative thought, feelings and people. Vigilance is our watchword.
Peace and love to you all and please pass it on.
Your brother of Christ, the Buddha and all the saints,
Peter G Kimble
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