This is a call to stand on common ground, to recognize the complementarity of another’s rhythms, thus own the differences that are the strength of relationship.
Like the ying and yang, the male-female in personality, the darkness and light, both are needed for wholeness, for redemption to be acknowledged.
Alignment of the will with the Father is the anguished belief that Abiding Love empowers one to choose something greater than one’s self.
“Let your will be done in me.” Luke 22:43
A reflection on Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, these are attitudes of being, our linkage with humanity are blessed because of the passionate love of Christ.
A celebration of Eucharist, this door was designed in response to our retiring pastor’s request for a piece of art for his apartment chapel.
It was executed as thanksgiving, in gratitude for his lifetime of leadership that flowed from a deep spirituality.
The design, cut through the panel, utilizes the light within to declare the dedicated purpose of the room.
While allowing the direction of penance, in pursuit of liberation, Freedom was found. She moves energetically forward, whipped both by the wind and the compelling Spirit within. The impulse is enhanced, yet restrained by the very fiber of self in which it is clothed. It is with rapport that she moves with abandon. Joy, hope and praise of God motivate the dynamism.
Passion, love impels response. This is a distinguishing feature of mercy today. Compassion reaches with the resources of recognized giftedness to touch needfulness of our age. Its thrust, is movement away from the earthiness of desire and want to collaborate with the Spirit to facilitate God’s people.
She is an abstracted image of the symbol that was synonymous with charity for over 350 years. As any historical memory, the details become lost while the strength of its presence evokes an attitude, value or movement that ignites the spirit. The universal elements of this personification are the reminiscence of dignity and readiness for service, the movement of compassion.
We make visible in Christ for what is lacking (to the tangibility of the senses). Col. 1:24
Christ is present in the needfulness of our poverty. We need the poor so that we can touch our poverty of life. The poor indeed create in us the power to be servants of compassion, 2 Cor. 1:5, a life of passionate thanksgiving for a sustaining God.
The poor empower us to become servants in the likeness of Christ, the Suffering Servant.
Their need fills what is wanton in us, giving dimension to our compassion.
As a reflection on Luke 24:13-35, this is a Christ figure in movement, walking passionately as if to catch up with the into which we, the disciples have taken dailiness the recent salvation experience. Recognition of the Christ is held from our immediate awareness. In our own perception, our image is a Jesus unlike the suffering servant of “the events that had taken place in Jerusalem.” Christ journeys with us so that we may understand the fulfillment of Old Testament metaphors and the reflections of others, that is the prophets that are present among us today. It is when we take time on our journey with each other, to reflect on the events of the day and in giving thanks together for shared insight, that Christ becomes present with us.
