Saturday 28 December 2013

Saturday and the sun is out. So I painted some art and also went for a private session with Kate, my art therapist.

Good day brothers and sisters > LOVE 2U

Lets just get straight into my art accompanied with words for 
our meditation. 
READY!












          "You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast walked in the Light, and what thou speakest is it inwardly from God?"


"The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts . . . his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them."



"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."



"I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness."



"One man raised by God's power to stand and live in the same spirit the apostle and prophets were in, can shake the country for ten miles around."


"I heard a voice which said, `There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition', and when I heard it, my heart did leap for joy."

    This above is a picture of Maisie our Staff x french mastiff puppy.  This was a cold day so she had a t-shirt on.

“We’re sitting on our blessed Mother Earth from which we get our strength and determination, love and humility – all the beautiful attributes that we’ve been given. So turn to one another; love one another; respect one another; respect Mother Earth; respect the waters – because that’s life itself!” ~ Phil Lane, Yankton Sioux





‘Be patterns, be examples, in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one.’ ~ George Fox, founder of Quakerism, 1656



Marrianne McMullen, 1987 said:
‘Ministry is what is one’s soul, and it can be in direct contradiction to what is on one’s mind.  It’s what the Inner Light gently pushes you toward or suddenly dumps in your lap.  It is rooted in eternity, divinity and selflessness of the Inner Light; not in the worldly, egoistic function of the conscious mind’

Love and peace to all beings. From your bro Peter. 

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Still waiting for the new website and so have neglected this one, as I was expecting it to disappear as I was unable to renew it and the provider has put it up for sale. Maybe until someone else buys it - and I cant see why they should want to - I will do the accasional post on here.

Good day brothers and sisters. To both those of you who are in Christ and all others.

Here is a photo of one of my sister artists who is no longer with us.

              Is she holding a gun to my work!

  

Just please bear Growl, with me as the following writing is not where I wanted to to be, but we can still make sense of it and not have me waste another ten minutes trying to get it where I had hoped to. O yeah I would rather hope for greater things like the western world wiping out third world debts and stopping selling weapons to them, or linking it to aid... Do they do that?

 

I ask you my bro`s and sisters to suspend any of your own preconceptions for the rest of this blog and just imagine as I do that the Holy Spirit of the Trinity is the same or related to the Tao. 

Morality made be the mind gets in the way of natural goodness.
             CHUANG TZU

  

The natural Goodness of Tao presides over the process of cosmic evolution. 
                   TAI GONG DIAO 



There is a natural sense of right and wrong, which vibrates in unison with the Tao, at the heart of every, man and woman.


Natural Goodness is obscured by self interest.

LAO TZU







Morality made by the mind gets in the way of Natural Goodness.
Chuang Tzu

              Above here I am dancing with the eternal Tao, and wearing the infinity symbol on my sleeve.

                               I didnt put the red cross in these two shots thats the Holy Spirits doing.


There is a natural sense of right and wrong.
      which vibrates in unison with Tao,
   at the heart of every man and woman.

               CHUANG TZU

Live long and prosper my bro`s and sis` and know that you are loved. Also as I sometimes say, if any one of you or more want to drop me a line then feel free to, at petgkimb@gmail.com

Till the next time. bfn Peter.

Tuesday 10 December 2013

Goo




Good day brothers and sisters.

I am glad to
be able to say its coming up to Christmas once
again and its the greatest Christian festival to celebrate.

Or as C.S. Lewis put it . . .


Being fully alive in Christ requires a certain foolhardiness in a world that says it’s all about you, that you can have it all, be it all, with no pain, no inconvenience, no discomfort. We have to reject all that is passing and seek that which is eternal that neither moth will eat nor rust destroy.

Aha, now my art is granted only a passing phase, but its okay to enjoy that which is in the moment,
as long as we do not try to hold on to it with misguided worth.  

To be fully alive is to be constructive, never destructive–always on the side of whatever is life-giving, on the side of that which uplifts us and empowers us to lift up others.


To be truly alive is to abide in the love of Christ and have the love of Christ abiding in us.
John wrote in 1 John 3: 11-24 that he who does not love abides in death.
    “For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them. We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister* in need and yet refuses help?
    Little children*, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.
    “And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.”
. *It’s interesting, isn’t it, that John addresses his readers in that passage as “Little children.”

. Which brings us back full circle to what Merton says, that “if we accept this infant as our God, we accept     our own obligations to grow with him.”...
For those of you my brothers and sisters who got this far, having let those who gave up earlier through lack of pictures of my art, then please stick with this, as it is coming up.
 I just wanted to say that I am sharing on my blogs that which is essential to being who I am. Which is of course to deny my ego, which separates me from God. Part of me; and yes a big creative part, is an artist and so here now I will share photos of my art which you are the first people after me to see...
         
Yes these were taken whilst the painting is still wet and it is moving about a little bit as I move it.


                                This above is the painting from which all the shots below emerge.
                                     It is as I type still wet and was painted/formed using acrylic
                                        and liquid acrylic. Plus of course various tools, but not
                                            on this occasion any paint brushes! Pls enjoy 
                                                  the different views I did choose to
                                                     share with you my beloved.


Whenever we go back to the fundamental mystical experience, to the soul’s first-hand testimony, we come upon a conviction that the human spirit transcends itself and is envisioned by a spiritual world with which it holds commerce and vital relationship.
~ Rufus Jones, The Inner Life (1916)






The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

~ Jean Toomer, 1894-1967





“May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions. ”
John Woolman, The Works of John Woolman















                     
   I share the following as maybe it would be good for a revival of Gregorian chant by the newest pope!

“I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was - and remains - the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a phony and a jackass. But then, one day in 1965 or so, it was simply abolished. With a stroke of his pen, Pope John XXIII - who had such good ideas about other things - declared that liturgy would henceforth be in the vernacular language of the people. That was, effectively, the end of Latin chant.

Then all those monks and nuns who had devoted hours and hours a day began to sicken and fall into depressions, but nobody noticed for a long time. Maybe, as I can well believe, the music toned up their systems in some mysterious way. Or perhaps chant really was a language that God understood. Faced with numerous liturgical scholas shrieking away in the new vernacular hymns, Divinity may have covered its ears and withdrawn, leaving the monks to pine. We parish musicians, illiterate in anything written after the 13th century, stumbled around trying to score liturgies for guitar and bongo drums, trying to make sense of texts like "Eat his body! Drink his blood!"

It wasn't because the music got so bad that I quit going to Mass, but it certainly was the beginning of my doubts about papal infallibility.”
Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
                     I am not today feeling blue, but am restful after a long walk with Maisy the puppy.


                                                               Pls pass this on with love.                                    

                                                                         FIN Brother Peter