Comments on: Christ Among the Scraps http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/11/19/christ-among-the-scraps/ Artist and writer Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word & image & faith. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Susan Sink http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/11/19/christ-among-the-scraps/#comment-605 Susan Sink Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:33:19 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=551#comment-605 Am I right to see a face down the center? and the miracle of loaves and fishes? and tears? and weights? and forests? and the sea of galilee? As karla said, so many points of entry... Am I right to see a face down the center? and the miracle of loaves and fishes? and tears? and weights? and forests? and the sea of galilee? As karla said, so many points of entry…

]]> By: Susan Sink http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/11/19/christ-among-the-scraps/#comment-604 Susan Sink Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:30:27 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=551#comment-604 Jan, thank you for the beautiful art and the reflection that there is no place Christ hasn't already thought of to go and gone. Last week I interviewed a Benedictine Sister who is a chaplain and she talked about her work at the hospital. It is hard work, mostly steeped in loss and grief, and she ministers to people making very hard decisions. And the challenge-- and the blessing-- she said, is seeing Christ in them. These are strangers, people she would never ordinarily meet. And they show her Christ. I am aware so often that I don't put myself in a place where I'll encounter the poor, the hungry, the prisoner. It's really a challenge in our middle class existences to encounter Christ as portrayed in this Gospel. Jan, thank you for the beautiful art and the reflection that there is no place Christ hasn’t already thought of to go and gone. Last week I interviewed a Benedictine Sister who is a chaplain and she talked about her work at the hospital. It is hard work, mostly steeped in loss and grief, and she ministers to people making very hard decisions. And the challenge– and the blessing– she said, is seeing Christ in them. These are strangers, people she would never ordinarily meet. And they show her Christ. I am aware so often that I don’t put myself in a place where I’ll encounter the poor, the hungry, the prisoner. It’s really a challenge in our middle class existences to encounter Christ as portrayed in this Gospel.

]]> By: JennySmith http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/11/19/christ-among-the-scraps/#comment-597 JennySmith Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:46:26 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=551#comment-597 I absolutely love what you've written here: And I pray for eyes to see the ways that Christ already inhabits every place. How there is no place it hasn’t already occurred to him to visit, no space in which he isn’t already working to make a home, no person through whom he might not startle me with the blazing of his presence. Amen. I absolutely love what you’ve written here:

And I pray for eyes to see the ways that Christ already inhabits every place. How there is no place it hasn’t already occurred to him to visit, no space in which he isn’t already working to make a home, no person through whom he might not startle me with the blazing of his presence.

Amen.

]]> By: phyllis http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/11/19/christ-among-the-scraps/#comment-591 phyllis Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:11:37 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=551#comment-591 You've done it again, Jan. Thank you. Your repetition of question and the strong image of "scraps" that make a "whole" are burrowing in my soul of activity to bring me back to looking for Christ wherever He dwells. You’ve done it again, Jan. Thank you. Your repetition of question and the strong image of “scraps” that make a “whole” are burrowing in my soul of activity to bring me back to looking for Christ wherever He dwells.

]]> By: karla http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/11/19/christ-among-the-scraps/#comment-590 karla Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:52:04 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=551#comment-590 Thank you for this meditation. It is beautiful...and the collage has so many points of entry and multiple ways of seeing it. Peace to you. Thank you for this meditation. It is beautiful…and the collage has so many points of entry and multiple ways of seeing it.
Peace to you.

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