Don's Blog
What a week around Wesley. The pews are out, the chairs are in, and the artworks arrived, their arrivals staggered to let Catherine our curator put them in position. The last one arrived today and as I write, they are nearly all in position. To see them in the flesh, so to speak, reinforces the powerful interpretations they offer on Jesus’ journey to the cross.
A friend of mine said last week. Often in church, we think we hold all the truth about Jesus, sometimes keeping it to ourselves, locking it up in the way we talk about or don’t talk about the bible. But when we give the Jesus story to artists and ask them to share their reflections they offer us a truth that we may have not seen before. They open up the story in a new way for us.
As I have wandered around each of the artworks this week, I listened to the personal stories of some of the artists as they engaged the work, as they let the Jesus story make an impact on them. It has been quite moving to hear these stories. I gained many new insights that I had not thought about before. My hope is that you too will find something new that will make an impact and be and encouragement as we travel this faith journey together. After all, as the song goes, we are all in this together.
Don
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