January 30, 2010

Looking for some images for a Candlemas reflection, I found myself pondering lines from two songs. First there is the Timothy Dudley-Smith Christmas hymn “Child of the stable’s secret birth”;
whose are the hands and the fingers curled
but his who fashioned and made our world
Then there are the (perhaps more familiar) lines of Graham [...]
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January 9, 2010

I was listening to an artist who was also involved in teaching children. Speaking about this famous picture of the Baptism of Jesus by Piero della Francesca, she relayed a child’s comment.
You can see God’s voice.
When she questioned the child about what he meant, he said:
Only Jesus has got ears.
That’s not strictly true: one of [...]
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