Tues 25th Sept 2012 St Sergius of Radonezh + my painting.

      

Good day and greetings and love to you all.

Good day to you my brothers and sisters. May blessings, peace and love be with you and work through you into the communities.  

The sun is shining this morning and as its just gone 8am, its not a bright dazzling light, but a gentle warm ray, which is contributing to my decision this day not to think much, but to just be aware of every moment. Let distractions drift away unconsidered. Its wonderful; if you look back up at what I wrote just above the photo of me with the sun and some shadow on me, and can take in the line; `Good day and greetings and love to you all.` Although, yes, it is a wish from me to you all, but more importantly its the nature of this universe for us to reap what we sow. For those of you that believe in an eternal creative force of Love as I do, then we must be on constant guard against the enemy, which wishes to separate us from each other and the communion of the love of God. This is partly why I am sharing today's saints day. So -  and I am not saying that there are- if their are any visitors to the blog who because of past historical conflict between countries, have prejudicial thoughts against Russia, then put them to one side and realise that in Christ we can all be brothers and sisters. American and  Russian. Indian and Filipino. Lesbian and Gay. The enemy is not flesh and blood, but principalities of evil. 
This said lets think about what we know from what I gathered about the Saint for today. About the man we know from this writing nothing of his personal history. The most valuable thing we can gather about him is that he was filled with the Holy Spirit. 
This remind`s me of the story in the Bible of the man who came across a great treasure whilst digging in a field and went of to sell all he had to buy this field and posses the treasure.
The treasure is the Love of God that passes all understanding. With this, of which there can be no greater love, what should we want of any things of this world.
If we say we are Christian, then we are followers of our Lord Jesus, who was born a Jew, and yet was the Word who existed before the creation of this planet and its countries. Lets cast off the old false clothes, which we mark ourselves as being different from those across the river, or across the ocean. Put on if not material clothes of white, then spiritual clothes of white, which cannot be blemished and stained by dirt, nor blood, nor sin.    

September 25th is the day of ST SERGIUS OF RADONEZH 

 The greatest national saint of Russia, he retired in youth to live as

  a hermit in the forest; but disciples gathered round him, and even-

  tually he founded a monastery dedicated to the Holy Trinity, 

  which within his own lifetime became the chief religious house in

  Muscovy. He encouraged his countrymen in their efforts to drive

  back the Tartars. The following story, recounted by his disciple

  Epiphanius, indicates the central place of the Eucharist in the 

  saint`s spiritual experience.

One day St Sergius was celebrating the divine liturgy, assisted by Simon, one of his disciples; and this Simon beheld a wonderful vision. While the saint was singing the liturgy, Simon saw a flame hovering over the holy table, surrounding and illuminating it. As the saint was about to receive communion, the divine fire coiled itself together and entered the sacred chalice; and thus the saint received communion. On witnessing this, Simon trembled with fear. The saint, when he moved away from the altar, realised that Simon had been allowed to see this miraculous vision; and, calling him, he said: `My son, why are you frightened?` And Simon answered: `My Lord, I have seen a miraculous vision; I have seen the grace of the Holy Spirit co-operating with you.` Then the saint forbade him to speak of it: `Tell no one of this that you have seen, until the Lord calls me away from this life.` 

 

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                          Now for a shot of today's painting

I really like this shot.

  The light colours and general feeling of the start of movement and exploration. This is peaceful to me!

                    
   Love and peace to you and all beings.

                     Please pass this on.

                     Your brother Peter. 
                        
    

I do like this day, Monday. Its not a fun day, but its a LOVE day.

Good day my brothers and sisters

Here is the art that I most recently painted to share

with you. As you can see this is a blog today of

My art only and I am just going to stay

in on this wet day and still

my mind. Hope that 

you are all

winning the

struggle.

                                           Todays painting above is still wet and so cannot get much newer.

          

                                                

"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language."  

                   Meister Eckhart.

When I am at a loss for words, then I can gather good ones from others. 

            Peter G Kimble

This is me, my brothers and sisters, signing off with the desire for you all to be as one in loving all creation and asking also for your prayers, as I get through some dark days. This is mainly brought on by the weekly injections of Interferon, which I am hoping the four which are in the fridge will be the last.

What will be will be, and we must soldier on whatever, or else the alternative is to give in to despair and depression. This for me at this time is not an option. 

Just hoping to overcome feelings of despair and worthlessness using prayer, art and internet distractions!

Bye for now. Know that you are loved. Be love and put love out in thoughts, words and deeds.

Your brother Peter. 

      

Who is watching you,or what are you watching!

Who is watching you, or what are you watching! 

                                                     Lets look at this from another angle. 

                                                     

                                                    Again we have a different perspective.

Waiting on the Lord

                   

O Lord, reassure me with your quickening Spirit. Mortify in me all ambition, vanity, vainglory, worldliness, pride, selfishness and resistance from God, and fill me with love, peace and all the fruits of the Spirit. O Lord, I world surrender myself to you, trusting Your precious promises. 

  You are the same yesterday, today, and forever; and therefore, waiting on the Lord, I trust I shall at length renew my strength.

                                                                                                                         William Wilberforce

                                                               Thy Kingdom come

In the Lords prayer we call for His kingdom to come and yet often contribute little to bring this about. On earth as it is in heaven. What does this mean. It should mean that since the resurrection of Jesus, we should be praying and working as agents filled with the Holy Spirit,  to be a transforming people. We should be working for justice  now. Feeding the hungry now. Setting the prisoners free now.
 We need to be bringing about changes in this fallen world. We need to breath into ourselves the life of God, so little by little we become transformed and can transform this world and raise this Earth so that it is filled with the glory of the Lord. 
We need to be the new creation people, so as we breath in the life of God, we become transforming people in Gods world. 
Spirituality is given little time in most Christians life. 
Becoming more truly a human is to realize that we are more than this earthly body. In fact its crazy how much time and money people spend on their own earthly bodies, yet so little on their possible eternal life!
If we want to be in the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven we have some work to do. Look around at the world. It needs plenty of work to stop it as it continues going downhill at reckless speed. We are not up to the job on our own. Thank God we are not on our own and are able to say, "Come Holy Spirit come". Do not belittle the fact that God is not just in temples and churches. God is everywhere and that includes the places that are filthy and wretched. Where you may not to take your little child or elderly parent.
So are we going to contribute to the problem, or be part of the solution. God knows it isn't an easy job.
 Firstly He sent His son to earth to die on the cross to save us.
 Now the Holy Spirit is here.
 We can ignore this, or give our lives to Jesus. I am with William Wilberforce on this one. We need one more... How about you!!!        This is your brother in Christ, Peter saying, be good out there and know that you are loved so much.
Peter G Kimble.  

BE AWARE GOD WANTS MORE WATCHMEN

Saturday Post

Greetings to you and blessings be upon you all.

The birds are singing and my mother is waiting for me to take her to the supermarket in about half an hour.
We usually go every friday morning. Yesterday though one of my sisters came and took her down.
Obviously she didnt get all she wanted as she has just rung me to ask if I would drive down and take her to The supermarket.

I had awoke this morning and thought how nice it would be to just stay in the flat in stillness and solitude.
But you know the saying, `The best made plans of mice and men can easily be altered my mothers or Herod.` Maybe thats not the saying, but its all there is on the table at the moment.

I am going to share now the photos taken of the two paintings done yesterday. It ought to be obvious which one it is that I prefer, but I put them both in as you may not choose the same as me. In which case I am sorry I didnt take more pictures of that one!

   

 

Well, thats all the photos of the paintings. I shall go in a minute, but take my camera in the hope that a good photo opportunity appears. So for now this is going on save.      

Well I am back and the bad news is I forgot the camera. The good news is I didnt see any photo ops!
O yes I also some twenty minutes ago realized I was writing the first bit of the blog in the character of Basil Faulty, from the sit com Faulty Towers!
Well its not yet 12 noon and so maybe this afternoon will be a time for me to be still and quiet.
Plato said that reality is changed by the mind and that we can change our reality by changing our mind.
Also The Roman, Marcus Aurelius, wrote "A man`s life is what his thoughts make of it." The Bible said, "Man is what he thinks about all day long." Throughout history, those people with awareness have spoken of the power of the mind.

            "You are a part of the universe, no less than the stars and trees, and you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you or not, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. . ."
         Desiderata

You may have heard it said, "I think therefore I am."  After meditating on this some time ago. Maybe if I dont think, then God is!

God is Love. So today my brothers and sisters - there is a saying, one day at a time sweet Jesus - I shall
try to have few thoughts and just feel the state of love.

Blessings, Love and peace be with you all.
Now and always.
Your brother Peter

Fish on Friday. International PEACE day. !

 INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY

Good day to you, all my brothers and sisters. Peace and love to you and all beings.


Blessed are our peacemakers.

The first thing which I done this morning to celebrate this day was offer up a prayer. This morning I used the VINITE an ancient Hymn used throughout the world at the beginning of the day.

O come let us sing to the Lord
Let us heartily rejoice in
the rock of our salvation.

Let us come into his presence
with thanksgiving:
And be glad in him with psalms.

For the LORD is a great God,
And a great King above all gods.

In His hands are the
depths of the earth.
And the heights of the 
Mountains are His also.

The sea is His,
for He made it:

And His hands have
Moulded the dry land.

Come, let us worship
and bow down:
And kneel before
the LORD our maker.

For He is our God
And we are His pasture.
And the sheep
of His hand.

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Then I put out the peace flag.

Of course we cannot have peace without love in our hearts. Let love be something we infuse our whole being with today. So when we are out we see God all around us. If someone pushes us or curses us, we apologize, because if God pushed us it must be for a good reason, even if we cannot see it at this time. It says in the bible to bless those that curse us. Why? Because first of all it benefits us most of all and them secondly! To get upset or angry and then perhaps feel like hurting them either with words or actions is to let that old trickster Satan into the equation and we dont want to be responsible for that do we! 
Remember thoughts dont own us, we own them. So if they seem bad and are going over and over in the mind, or worst still we think of acting them out to the detriment of the world; get rid of them. Cast them out. If I was feeling depressed right now and found a bottle of vodka outside my door with a note attached, `Enjoy Peter this present to you from a friend. (a well wisher.) I should laugh as I emptied is down the toilet directly, saying `Out demons out.` These are the words from a song I used to listen to in the 80`s either ZZ Top, or New Riders of the Purple Sage, or some other rock bank.
Just seen on the internet `John Michael Talbot` YouTube. John Michael Talbot an American Christian monk and singer songwriter, who I may have got the CD I have from Greenbelt christian music festival some five years ago. Well I watched a video of one of his recordings from probably the  early seventies, where it was much more rock music.
Now I am going to go and look up Christian Punk music and see what thats like.

                            This above was the best!! Didnt
                             understand words. Got d energy.

Good day 2u my brothers and sisters and know that you are loved.
Your bro Peter 
      
Latest news  just googled Internet for Peace

Without us it cannot be complete!!!  

evening post went outside and over the park with camera.

You may know that I am quite interested in reflections. Both reflecting on subjects and on objects. Here is a couple of the 
later, beneath. Maybe hard to see my face in the little berries.

    

             Could also only be in my imagination. In which case they will not be there if not in yours!

                                          Definitely you see my distorted face here. Yet I am not.
                                              (I am not distorted, its only an image, not self.)

                                          Here is a white feather stopping to rest awhile. Then

                                                 Off it goes and this is where I left it in midair.


This is where I shall also leave you. With this instruction to take or leave as you wish.

`Don`t pray tor tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.`

Bro Peter G Kimble

Thursday peace to you and my here is my art without special effects.

Welcome my brothers and sisters to my blog this
glorious day.                
                            The first painting I produced yesterday.

                                                   This was okay, but it didnt do anything for me.
                                                    Perhaps it was a warm up, like a swing of the 
                                                    bat, before digging in an having a go at the ball.

Okay. So now I have got the balls and am going to let go and swing. 

                  Relax now and be still.

Not content I carried on and painted another.
Putting less into it and getting more from it!

                             



The Protecting God

Lord be with us this day,
Within us to purify us;
Above us to draw us up;
Beneath us to sustain us;
  Before us to lead us;
Behind us to restrain us;
Around us to protect us.

        St Patrick


The Power Of God

May the strength of God pilot us,
May the power of God preserve us,
May the wisdom of God protect us,
   May the hand of God protect us,  

      May the way of God direct us,
   May the shield of God defend us,
      May the host of God guard us
             against snares of evil
and the temptations of the world.

     St Patrick
                                                           


                                                                     FIN

Ps.   Be good out there, you all and pass on the love that goes beyond understanding. You are so loved. Your brother Peter