by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
… I could see, too, the twitching of the fingers, Caught temporarily in art’s neurosis, As we sat there or warmly applauded This player who so beautifully suffered For each of us upon his instrument. So it must have been on Calvary In the fiercer light of the...
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
Was he baulked by silence? He kneeled long And saw love in a dark crown Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree Golden with fruit of a man’s body. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), Song at the Year’s Turning, 1955.
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
…The Carpenter had done his work well to sustain the carpenter’s burden; the cross an example of the power of art to transcend timber. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000).
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ, Glory
Not the empty tomb but the uninhabited cross. Look long enough and you will see the arms put on leaves. Not a crown of thorns but a crown of flowers haloing it, with a bird singing as though perched on paradise’s threshold. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000),...
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Our Father
‘A wolf is not only turned into a sheep, but doth also take to himself a shepherd’s nature. It is as if Christ should bring forth with his hand some angel sent from heaven.’ John Calvin (1509-64), Commentary, (Acts 9:1-5).
