Like Jesus , Francis of Assisi did some pretty outrageous things. Everybody knows how he went and preached to the birds, but not everybody knows why he did it. It wasn't, as certain 1970s movies would have it, because he was a nature-loving hippie (although I do love Donavan's soundtrack, especially the theme song). It was because the human beings he was preaching to wouldn't listen. He had wanted to preach the word of God in Rome, but when he arrived there, the people scorned him because he was dressed poorly, so they thought him an idiot. He tried for several days to gain their attention, but could not overcome their hardness of heart. "I grieve deeply over your misfortune," he told them, "because you are not only spurning me as a servant of Christ, but you are also really despising Him in me, since I have been preaching to you the Gospel of the Redeemer of the world. And so I am now leaving Rome. And I call as witness of your desolation Him who is t
nice images
ReplyDeleteone of my favorite blogs and one that has inspired other blogs is copenhagencyclechic ... bicycling is something I enjoy. I often find my own solacment in bicycling..I suppose my own personalized relationship with God in my own way.
Thank you for the lovely photos.
:) w3schools.com (css instruction)? Where I eventually learned through trial and error how to make mine.
ReplyDeletethanks for the insight
On the other hand, this is something my son (age 12) can teach me, and this is a great gift. But then, of course, I suppose online tutorials won't drop sock monkeys on your head. :)
ReplyDelete...maybe this all very simply means that God is everywhere where we want God to be, in the paintings as well as in the artists who made them, in the real flower and in the skill required to make the painted one, in the burning candle and in the person who takes time out to light one, in the churches and on the streets, and in the sock and the child who is at play ... if we want to see God (Christian or other, no matter) we can and do. PS: Very beautiful pictures indeed.
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