Friday, 29 May 2020

Pentecost Sunday


“I will pour out my spirit on all people...”  Acts 2 v 17
I would love to know the name of the artist of this painting I saw recently ...which seems to hint at far more people than those dressed in the clothes of Jesus’ immediate followers receiving the Holy Spirit

What does it say to you ?

Ongoing Pentecostal Symphony...     

It seems to link in with my painting from a few years ago when someone challenged me to paint something for Pentecost...
I thought of the quiet, intimate giving of the Holy Spirit by the Risen Christ
( John 20 v 22 ) when “He breathed on them, and they received the Holy Spirit”...

and also the description of the “rushing mighty wind “ and “tongues of fire” (Acts 2 ) when there were probably a larger group of people all gathered together ( Acts 1 v 12 - 15 )...

and then recalled all those throughout history, around the world, and within my own knowledge who have experienced the Holy Spirit in our own lives...an ongoing symphony...a continual outpouring... in a myriad different ways...


Saturday : awaiting Pentecost


Thursday, 28 May 2020

Friday awaiting Pentecost



“within our darkest night
             You kindle a fire
                    that never dies away...  “          chorus from Taize Community :    www.taize.fr



                                                                 

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Thursday : Wind


 I love painting sailing boats... the way the wind takes their sails...

sudden jybe, Pyfleet races: c. Janet Driver

on the wings of the morning : c. Janet Driver

...as a child I remember learning this poem about wind... with a long drawn-out Whooooo   :)

Who has seen the wind? 
Neither I nor you: 
But when the leaves hang trembling, 
The wind is passing through. 

Who has seen the wind? 
Neither you nor I: 
But when the trees bow down their heads, 
The wind is passing by.                                  Christina Rossetti

..then, years later, this struck me :  
 “the wind blows wherever it pleases;
you hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going...
that is how it is with all who are born of the spirit...”
                                                                           St John 3, v 8

Wednesday : Peace Window

Ervin Bossanyi : Peace Window, Canterbury Cathedral