When I allowed myself to deeply gaze into the story with the use of this painting, I realized that I have a Lord and King who has washed me, though I don’t fully understand it. He is willing to kneel at my feet and this thought opens and humbles me.
Tag: Meditation
Storm~Passion Week
Welcome to God thru the Arts Holy Week Meditations This week I will be exploring various music and art to direct our minds into a deeper experience of the events that surrounded Jesus during the week preceding his crucifixion. These works of art will represent diverse people, time and genres. Not intended as a newspaper…
How Can We Encounter Jesus?
Happy Weekend and Thank you for joining me with this meditation. This is a fabulous painting by the little known Polish Artist: Henryk Siemiradsky. This painting is 3.5 x 6 feet and so you can try to imagine the true size of the scene. Siemiradsky is famous for these kind of sunlight scenes from antiquity….
GTA Advent Journey, Day 17: The Angelus
We beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection.
GTA Advent Journey, Day 16: The Lamb
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
GTA Advent Journey Day 15: Holy Grail
Renew your picture of our God who is love and is seeking each of us. Yes! the “Wise Men” brought precious gifts to the baby Jesus, but their greatest gift to him was their presence….and by their presence we are changed as they bring the world to worship the new born King.
GTA Advent Journey, Day 13: Spiritual Formation
GTA Advent Journey Day 13: Spiritual Formation The Sistine Madonna, by Raphael, 11513-14, Oil on canvas, 270x201cm, Gemaldegalerie , Dresden, Image courtesy Web Gallery of Art. <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Madonna” “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John…
Advent Journey Day Four: Comfort
Advent Journey Day Four-Comfort Today I encourage you to read Isaiah chapter 40. This is perhaps one of the most encouraging and beautiful chapters of the Bible. Did you know that these opening verses actually open Handel’s Messiah? Lovely! Imagine Handel reading these words for the first time and beginning to hear musical ideas forming…….