Wrestle With Angels

. There are the unseen Battles within   Whose immeasurable Participants . Wrestle With angels. . Delacroix - Jacob's Fight with the Angel

Another Realm of Beauty

Look for the angels on the left-hand side of this beautiful painting (it's easy not to notice they have wings at a first glance) . The angels Amazed . Hold hands In glee . Their rainbowed wings Speak . Of another realm Of beauty . And we too May be cleansed . By this grace …

Inspiring Paintings: The Silent Song of Angels

~ The silent song Of angels  ~ Surrounds us Here ~ Where we make Our stable home ~ And cry And worship ~ And are never completely Alone.  ~ "The Nativity" by Piero Della Francesca

The Mystic Dove

~ The beautiful bird ventured into flight ~  Seeking the home of angels above ~  Returning home the mystic dove ~ Accepted, enveloped by the light.  ~ Inspired by a post @ https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/christ-bird-and-play-of-hope-anglo.html

In Contemplation

~ To wait In the presence . Of God For the consolation . Of the angels Offered now . Through Contemplation. . from a sequence inspired by Andrei Rublev's icon, "The Holy Trinity", and by Henri Nouwen's essay on the icon in "Behold the Beauty of the Lord" . Andrei Rublev, "The Holy Trinity"

Dreaming of Angels

. Dreaming Of angels . When God Was . Within All . Through Time. .

Never Alone

. A dream From a stone . Of angels Ascending . And descending On a son . Of man And woman . Never Alone. . William Blake, 'Jacob's Ladder'

Humble My Swelling Pride

. What am I Compared to the angels? . What am I Compared to God? . Those divine Attributes . Humble My swelling pride. . Image by Neegam Singh from Pixabay

Images of Hope (3)

Maundy Thursday was marked yesterday. This is an image of one giving to another. It's an image of other presences in the world of the sense - can you see the angelic figures? It's an image of how some people have a distinctiveness about their presence - Jesus here is distinguished by a glowing halo …

Surrounding

. So great A crowd . Of witnesses Surrounding me . With words Of love that raise . My soul It is as if . I am with God And angels . Singing Heavenly praise. .