Comments on: Lent 4: Here’s Mud in Your Eye http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/27/lent-4-heres-mud-in-your-eye/ Artist and writer Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word & image & faith. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:48:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rev Jack Muir http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/27/lent-4-heres-mud-in-your-eye/#comment-145 Rev Jack Muir Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:41:46 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=84#comment-145 wonderful site-thank you very much for your words wonderful site-thank you very much for your words

]]> By: lindsey kluver http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/27/lent-4-heres-mud-in-your-eye/#comment-132 lindsey kluver Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:06:09 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=84#comment-132 Hello, I just found your blog via the Alban Institute and LOVE IT! What fantastic work and insight. I am an artist and currently getting a MA in Theology and Art at United Theological Seminary in the Twin Cities. The type of work that you are doing with you blog is amazing and very in line with my current desires for drawing art and theology together. Thanks so much for sharing! Hello,
I just found your blog via the Alban Institute and LOVE IT! What fantastic work and insight. I am an artist and currently getting a MA in Theology and Art at United Theological Seminary in the Twin Cities. The type of work that you are doing with you blog is amazing and very in line with my current desires for drawing art and theology together. Thanks so much for sharing!

]]> By: Lew Kaye-Skinner http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/27/lent-4-heres-mud-in-your-eye/#comment-130 Lew Kaye-Skinner Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:38:34 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=84#comment-130 As an educator of college undergrads and the leader of an adult Sunday School class, I am often in search of questions which will open my students/class members to new possibilities. Unfortunately, many of them seem unable to move beyond understanding questions as a request for factual information by which they will be judged (litmus test or simply a part of their grade). Blessedly, once in a while one of my students or class members asks a question of me which helps to wash the metaphorical mud from my eyes. Unlike the Pharisees and the temple authorities in this story, I don't consider myself to be already in possession of every answer worth knowing any more than I have every question worth asking. Thanks for your reflections. As an educator of college undergrads and the leader of an adult Sunday School class, I am often in search of questions which will open my students/class members to new possibilities. Unfortunately, many of them seem unable to move beyond understanding questions as a request for factual information by which they will be judged (litmus test or simply a part of their grade). Blessedly, once in a while one of my students or class members asks a question of me which helps to wash the metaphorical mud from my eyes. Unlike the Pharisees and the temple authorities in this story, I don’t consider myself to be already in possession of every answer worth knowing any more than I have every question worth asking.

Thanks for your reflections.

]]> By: Ann Howard http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/27/lent-4-heres-mud-in-your-eye/#comment-129 Ann Howard Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:03:41 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=84#comment-129 I have thought often of those questions which open me up to new exploration. Recently, in my work with hospice patients and often people with dementia, my challenge is to find questions that will knock on a door where someone is at home. I'm not hunting for any particular answers, just some opening and widening of their lives, even for the moment. The idea that some questions are not questions at all, but rather "litmus tests" is interesting and true. You've given me much to think about. Thank you. I have thought often of those questions which open me up to new exploration. Recently, in my work with hospice patients and often people with dementia, my challenge is to find questions that will knock on a door where someone is at home. I’m not hunting for any particular answers, just some opening and widening of their lives, even for the moment.

The idea that some questions are not questions at all, but rather “litmus tests” is interesting and true. You’ve given me much to think about. Thank you.

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