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Pastor Josh
Mar 31, 20225 min read
Thursday, Fourth week of Lent
"Children on the Seashore, Guernsey", 1883?, Auguste Renoir The way into blessed freedom may be not to live in too great a dependence on...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 30, 20226 min read
Wednesday, Fourth week of Lent
"Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning." - Psalm 30:5 "By Moonlight", 1994, Margaret Neve We surrender to joy:...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 29, 20222 min read
Tuesday, fourth week of Lent
"Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning." - Psalm 30:5 "Baby in Red Chair", c. 1810-30, unknown artist The very...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 28, 20222 min read
Monday, Fourth Week of Lent
"Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning." - Psalm 30:5 "Rainbow Landscape", c. 1636, Peter Paul Rubens Rubens is...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Saturday, Third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 March 25th...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 25, 20224 min read
Friday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Allegory:...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 23, 20222 min read
Thursday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "The Silence",...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 22, 20221 min read
Wednesday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Interior",...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 22, 20225 min read
Tuesday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Amédée-David,...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 21, 20224 min read
Monday, third week of Lent
"The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" - Philippians 4:7 "Composition in...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 19, 20222 min read
Saturday, "Meditate in your heart...and be still" Psalm 4:4
"White Lilac", 1882-83, Edouard Manet In a crystal vase, bathed in sunlight, Manet's White Lilac has no function except to exist. In the...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Friday, "Meditate in your heart...and be still" -Psalm 4:4
"Still Life with Ginger Pot II", 1911-12, Piet Mondrian To know what matters and what does not is the lesson that we long to be taught....
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Pastor Josh
Mar 17, 20222 min read
Thursday, "Meditate in your heart...and be still" Psalm 4:4
"Queen's House" Greenwich II, 1978, Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson has taken as his special theme the way light shines on emptiness. The...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 16, 20223 min read
Wednesday "Meditate in your heart...and be still" -Psalm 4:4
"St Catherine of Alexandria" (cropped), c.1507. Raphael What matters is not stillness itself, which can be merely physical, but what we...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 14, 20222 min read
Tuesday, "Meditate in your heart and be still..." Psalm 4:4
"Epiphany", 1990 Robert Natkin Only the abstract can attempt to show us light in itself, free from any material context. This is pure...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 14, 20222 min read
Contemplation
"Meditation in your heart....and be still." -Psalm 4:4 The gate that silence opens up within us leads to light. Light exposes with an...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 12, 20223 min read
Saturday "For God alone my soul waits in silence"
"Three Greys" by Yuko Shiraishi Wendy Beckett closes this week of reflection with a thought to Silence and time. A quick glance at the...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 11, 20222 min read
Friday "For God alone my soul waits in silence"
"Untitled H30" (diptych) 1993, Rebecca Salter Sister Wendy writes, Silence is a paradox, intensely 'there' and, with equal intensity,...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 10, 20221 min read
Thursday, "For God Alone my soul waits in silence..."
"The Magdalen Reading", c.1445, Rogier Van der Weyden Sister Beckett offers, There are layers of silence. Van der Weyden's Magdalen is...
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Pastor Josh
Mar 9, 20222 min read
Wednesday "For God alone my soul waits in silence..."
The Tower of Babel, c. 1563, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Sister Beckett writes...What Silence principally armors us against is Babel: the...
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