Thursday 4th Oct 2012

Good day to you and blessings and love to you.

First of all I had to say a little prayer. Not that God needs our prayers although of course He is always waiting for us to communicate with Him. Wanting us to share with Him our joys and concerns. It isn't that He doesnt know them, but he wants us to know them, as we can often be the last to uncover what is really troubling us. Talking something out with another there to listen is often the way to un-jumble a knotty problem. Sometimes talking to another person, no matter how well intentioned, may not quite get to grips with the problem. They may interrupt you when you are just getting to something and although their interjection was well thought out, it had no relevance and only made you lose your train of thought.
With God, we can be still and sit back together to look at the problem. Might be that the best plan of action is to wait and see what happens. 
  Now for some photos of the painting which came about yesterday. Oh and I did like to experiment with the mirror effect on this one!

 

           Here is a bonus painting. What I like 
           about this one is the calmness, almost
           like a comfortable dream.

Some writing now by another.

Divine self-giving

The image of the creation suggested by popular devotion is an image of serene and effortless activity - the activity, one might say, `of the left hand of God`. `He spake the word and they were made: He commanded and they were created.` `By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath of His mouth.` Whatever nay have been the original intention of such words, they convey an impression of easy control and limited endeavour, of resources held in reserve and power unused. The is nothin of the giving of self, and therefore nothing of the authenticity of love, in activity so light and easy.

  If the work of God in creation is the work of love, then truth demands an imagery which will do justice to the limitless self-giving which is among the marks of authentic love: and the imagery which the head demands may have a new power of appeal to the moral sensitivity of the heart.

  As a parenthesis, we may illustrate the kind of imagery which might express the self-giving of God in creation. A doctor tell s of an operation which, as a young student, he observed in a London hospital. `It was the first time that this particular brain operation had been carried out in this country. It was performed by one of our leading surgeons upon a young man of great promise for whom, after an accident, there seemed to be no other remedy. It was an operation of the greatest delicacy, in which a small error would have had fatal consequences. In the outcome the operation was a triumph: but it involved seven hours of intense and uninterrupted concentration on the part of the surgeon. When it was over, a nurse had to take him by the hand, and lead him from the operating theatre like a blind man or a little child.` This, one might say, is what self-giving is like: such is the likeness of God, wholly given, spent and drained in that sublime self-giving which is the ground and source and origin of the universe.
                  W.H.VANSTONE.
This makes me think of when the chicken and the pig where told that they were going to provide the breakfast. The pig said to the chicken, `I dont think that you understand. This requires a whole different level of commitment from me.

So my brothers and sisters, lets go out today and give it our all and be the best we can. No more and no less.
Your bro Peter.