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After my last two blogs looking at the exquisite artistry of the American landscape painter, Frederic Church, I am going to give you something completely different today. I was going to facetiously say that I was moving from the sublime to the ridiculous but I know that labelling Surrealism as “ridiculous” is a rather facile and childish statement. Not being an artist, I would be curious to know if the upbringing of an artist and how life has treated them has any bearing on their painting style. For example, Frederic Church came from a happy and financially sound family background and lived close to a very picturesque countryside and in some ways the works he produced mirrored not just the environment around him but the peace and tranquillity of his mind. My featured artist today probably felt little of that peace and tranquillity in his life and that may account for some of the disturbing images he produced. My artist today is André Masson and the painting of his I want to look at is entitled Gradiva which he completed in 1939. It is not just about a painting but about a German novel and a renowned Austrian neurologist who was hailed as the founding father of psychoanalysis and along the way I will delve into the world of automatism in art!
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What Jesus Means by ‘I Am the Vine, You Are the Branches’
Now to the most important point. How do we do this? How do we learn to remain in Jesus so that He becomes like home to us? Jesus believed that we could; otherwise, He would have never asked us to.
Here are four suggestions to get you going. Try one and see where it takes you:
1. Inventory: Before you go to bed each night, take a brief inventory of the day. If we don’t remain in Jesus, we are just remaining somewhere else—in anxiety, in anger, in fear, in shame, in ambition, in numbness, in self-absorption. Ask yourself, “Where was I remaining today?” Then talk to Jesus about your desire to remain more in Him.
2. Listening: Remaining happens as we just start the conversation with Jesus. Start each morning by having a conversation with Him about some passage of Scripture and the day ahead. Then be still for a few moments. Ask Jesus, “What do you want to say to me?” Jesus is always trying to speak to us, but often we do not take the time to listen.
3. Gratitude: One of the surest ways to learn to stay at home with Jesus is to practice gratitude. Take some time regularly to give thanks. Use these categories, each for a few minutes, to notice things: give thanks for what you have seen, then what you have hear
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Not Good Enough: Taking Conscience of Shame Captive harmony the Gospel
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