Inspiring Paintings – Waiting Like Light

Standing And waiting like light . For the heart's darkness To be dispelled . By the dawn For eyes . That have known Only blindness . To recover New sight . For life to be opened To goodness and right. . "The Light of the World", Holman Hunt

What Will We Offer?

Beyond individuality The world's face . Of pain Calls to our infinite . Giftedness. What will we offer . To the poor The hungry . The blind And the lame . If it is not A supernatural grace? .

The Spirituality of Jesus (2) – Healing and Wholeness

I wonder how many people are searching for healing and wholeness today?   And to what extent is this a spiritual search? Many of the stories about Jesus in the Gospels involve healing: the healing of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual diseases.  The Gospel writers see this as Jesus’ spiritual power of goodness that banishes evil …

The Fire Transforms

  There is a light That grows   From an inner Fire   A fire That never dies   The fire Of love   And however blind Is the old soul   The fire Transforms   All spirit To beauty.  

Visions of Goldenness

  His blindness Leads him   To visions Of goldenness   The world’s Beauty   Which is the treasure Of eternal life.  

From Blindness to Blessedness

  Some animals are born completely blind and utterly dependent on their parents. Though not all people are literally born blind, artists have seen a kind of blindness in the ways that we sometimes think and act... Bruegel - Parable of the Blind Another way some have found to describe this is the idea of …