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kareyswan

Gift of Reconciliation

Mar 30, 2005 08:20

A connection of three scriptures got me thinking deeper. I've heard the word 'reconcilition' lots, and have a simple understanding of it. I may have heard it since childhood in connection to my relationship with God. But now my knowing is touching my heart ( Read more... )

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la_dolcezza March 31 2005, 05:48:22 UTC

I hope you don't mind but I copied your previous post on the 50 days after Easter into an e-mail to my worship team. I'm trying to impress upon them how we should spend the next weeks leading up to Pentecost in celebration and I thought your post was perfect. Thanks.

I've enjoyed this latest post as well. I read this and then re-read Vincent van Gogh's biography (highlights). Today is his birthday, March 30, 1853. It is difficult to "reconcile" his love for God, his love for the people he served in ministry, his love for nature and his tragic willingness to shoot himself in the chest. His artist friends were so moved at his funeral they could barely speak, mostly they just sobbed.

I'm thinking it's about redemption. Long term, beyond his life and death. I hope to post something with this theme soon.

Van Gogh kareyswan March 31 2005, 13:31:03 UTC

I don't mind the transfer of ideas.
I knew it was Van Gogh's birthday. Something that's thought provoking about him is that he was sanest when he did his art. One of my bipolar artist friends is only alive because of medication. But to think of the value of our imagination and how putting it to use with our senses and maybe that piece of getting so into it, it takes us out of ourselves, out of self-preoccupation - for some people it brings sanity.

Our pastor did a sermon about killing oneself, because someone in our body had commited suicide, hanging himself. About not judging because of not understanding the passions of the moment. I wish I could remember more, it was so good.