I went over the woods today and got three photos to share. No big surprise!

God loves you and I love you all.

Good day to you my brothers and sisters. My first thought when coming across the tree in photo top left, was to come back with a ladder and carving chisels. I thought it would be good to carve two faces kissing. Today though I thought it best leaving it to nature as someone else may see something totally different in it as it is and so I would be spoiling it for them.

The one to the left, I liked the shape of the branch in the foreground against the background sky. Also the tree leaning in the distance, reminding me that it has been moving and growing over the last thirty or forty years, but we havent been still enough to see it change. What lovely clouds also still only in the picture.

Even if someone lives to be a hundred years old, a great part of that time is spent in the infirmities of childhood and old age. A huge part is consumed by sleep at night and worries by day. Much of it is wasted in sorrow and fear. Only a small fraction remains for enjoying being alive - so dont waste it.

Yang Zhu

Peace and love to you and all beings, from your brother Peter. (PS pass it on.)

And the blog gets back to my art, thank God!

I like this. Well let me expound on that a bit. This is a piece I have been working on at my forensic art therapists. The mirror which is being scratched away in parts to reveal whatever is behind it.

If we leave it here with a quote about art, then enough said ay!

Life without art would be a mistake

error in previous blog!!!

Instead of `odd covenant`, it should be `old`. I guess most would realize, but a few may think, well peter is a bit odd and so is this covenant.! Toodle pip.

Good day and who do you think made God.

Good day to you my brothers and sisters.

To those of you in Christ and those of who are not, but have open minds.

I would like to share the last chapter of the book `Who made God`, by Edgar Andrews.

Reformation or rebirth?

The new atheists have a commendable desire to reform human nature. `We are born selfish,` declares Richard Dawkins, but we can be taught to behave unselfishly. The Bible, on the other hand, demonstrates that such a strategy simply does not work. Dawkins misses the central message of the Old Testament - men cannot be reformed simply by giving them moral laws and instructions to obey. The covenant that God established with Israel at Mount Sinai (the `odd covenant`, also called `the law`) epitomized the principle of loving our neighbour as we love ourselves. This is the entire thrust of the last six of the Ten Commandments handed down to Moses on the Mount (the first four exhort us to love God). Israel was thus the perfect (and intentional) test-bed for the idea that you can make people good by teaching them to be good. It didn`t work then and it doesn`t work now. Much of the Old Testament was written to demonstrate this fact. The test failed miserably and the New Testament concludes: `...whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the law is the knowledge of sin` St Paul , who wrote these words, was speaking out of personal experience. As a Pharisee he had striven with all his might to obey the moral rules he had been taught under the old covenant, but it didn`t work because mere teaching couldn't change his selfish heart. That is why Dawkins` quest is hopeless and why the Bible presents us with a new covenant - predicted in the Old Testament by Jeremiah 31 and cited in the New Testament as follows:

Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah - not according to the covenant that I made with there fathers in the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days ... I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, None of them shall teach his neighbour, and none his brother, saying, `Know the Lord,` for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.32 ( The New Testament applies this covenant to Jews and non-Jews alike.)

The hypothesis of God predicts that man`s sinful heart can never be changed by mere instruction, no matter how good and noble that teaching may be. It can only be changed by a `new birth` in which the spirit of God himself takes up residence in a person`s heart and mind - `writing` there the moral law and empowering the recipient to love and obey God. This work of new birth is accompanied by the forgiveness of man`s `sins and lawless deeds` on the grounds of Jesus Christ`s atoning death and justifying resurrection.33

Does it work? Yes, indeed, as the the author of this book can testify, along with countless others (including me, the writer of this blog.) who have found grace in the eyes of the Lord` and salvation in Christ - who, says St Paul again, `loved me and gave Himself for me`. 34 For all such people the hypothesis of God is amply proven to be true. I therefore end this book at the beginning of another story. Read more about it in `the Gospel according to St John`.

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Ah, I have just looked in the front of the book and seen in childish writing, `Happy birthday DAD 2010 love xx Josh

What a great present that was from my son. Wonderful

Sunday Post & a bit of Tutu to you.

Hi folks. Am hoping that this finds you all well. I did have a bit of video which one of mys boys shot for me to go on this blog. Problem is that neither him nor me is able to get it onto the blog from the file its stored in.

Now my 1st son said, " I dare you to put this photo on, which he took."

I have no idea how in any way it relates to this bit of Tutu which I am putting below.

YOUR PART IN GOD`S DREAM

Dear child of God, as I hope is now clear, you are God`s partner, and you matter.

Only you can fulfill your part of God`s dream. In addition to all the good you are already doing, you may wish to consider these twenty first century tools for finding those who also need your help.

www.givenow.org

www.justgiving.com

www.oxfam.ork.uk

www.workingabroad.com

www.amnesty.org.uk

So for now my brothers and sisters I must take my leave as my son wants to watch `Family Guy` on the computer.

Have a good week and please if you can pray that if its Gods will I become a sought after artist, then I shall be able to generate some funds also.

God bless you all and may this week be great for you.

Brother Peter

Yep the last blog would have been slightly spiritual if more than the blog had got posted.

These things are sent to test us they say!

Following the example of Tao, the wise meet all opposition with a quiet mind and an open heart. Then their opposition naturally dissapears.

To imitate the unconscious benevolence of Heaven and Earth through which everything spontaneously evolves, do good to all beings without anyone noticing.

This is the third time a blog is attempted to get posted.

The first one got lost somehow. The second only the title got on. So I thought it would be fitting for me to attempt to post this one without a title!

Peace and love to you my brothers and sisters.

Peter G Kimble/

The art of eliminating the impossible!

Good day to you my few ,but cherished brothers and sisters.

`How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?`

Sir Arhur Conan Doyle`s Sherlock Holmes

in The sign of the four (1889)

Tao acts like a still axis

around which the universe evolves

At times it may seem absurd to believe that what I convey from apparently different sources has much in relation to this artists blog. Or to me! But what is art, but something observed as such by an observer. Well it can be something produced with the intention of being art and yet remain unseen/unheard. I just whistled untunefully, but unfortunatly there was another living being who was a witness to this apalling sound. Buster. I didnt carry on once I noticed him as I have a great regard for our canine friends superior hearing. It did make me think of the zen question, if a tree falls over in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Surely the answer is both yes and no isnt it. Matter can be both a particle and a wave.

What about prayer. I shall be cycling of to meet my son and then cycling back with him. Should I pray for our safe journey? What if God planned for one or both of us to join him for a wonderfull banquet and unending heavenly bliss, but he aquiesed to my prayer, which resulted in decades of misary for one or both of us here on earth. God I am starting to get depressing and so better go now and leave you with a hi di ho. Chins up and blessings be upon you. Bro Peter