Art as a Window to the Divine – Page 2

No More Than A Hundred Years Are We Given

So begins the song Mighty Sound by the band Tim B Told. A week ago I knew nothing about them. Now they are working their way under my skin, my psyche, my spirit like threads of silken light. Maybe they’ll do the same for you. Pax

What Does Liberation Look Like?

There is a preconception in our culture that to be a person of faith means to live a small, tight, narrow life, but that has not been my experience. Far from it. In truth, the deeper I go, the freer I get, until all there is are the gifts God has given me and theContinue reading “What Does Liberation Look Like?”

Silence my soul, these trees are prayers. I ask the tree, “Tell me about God”; then it blossomed. —Rabindranath Tagore

They Are Not Commandments

Sometimes we lose sight of the big picture because we get tripped up in the details. So it is with the story of Moses, and, in particular, Moses on the mountaintop receiving the ten commandments. This is the first deception, the word “commandment.” Because nowhere in the Bible, in any translation, are they actually calledContinue reading “They Are Not Commandments”

The Life Line

Sometimes God shows us things months—even years—before they have meaning to us. It is only in retrospect that we begin to say “oh.” A few years back I began seeing this scene in my Spirit. Only I was the woman in the picture, and the metal was not part of a boat rigging but ratherContinue reading “The Life Line”