...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor
5.08.2015
Unpublished: The Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan (1885) by the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler:
--an unpublished post sharing a painting I found particularly moving
Count me in. To cherish the lost, the naked, those who hunger or need; I have immediate desire to help. Offering-up a heartfelt prayer is first thought. Regarding need, I have no enemy. I see this is philosophical, for I am moody and must first come into GOD's presence. I must seek God's rightness & not my own. I could Rapp on,on, but I have said enough.
The impression I got growing up was that if we came upon a similar situation, we should go over to the person, arouse him out of his unconsciousness, and say,"Fellow, you need to go home and read Philippians 4:13. That will do you a world of good."
Count me in. To cherish the lost, the naked, those who hunger or need; I have immediate desire to help. Offering-up a heartfelt prayer is first thought. Regarding need, I have no enemy.
ReplyDeleteI see this is philosophical, for I am moody and must first come into GOD's presence. I must seek God's rightness & not my own.
I could Rapp on,on, but I have said enough.
The impression I got growing up was that if we came upon a similar situation, we should go over to the person, arouse him out of his unconsciousness, and say,"Fellow, you need to go home and read Philippians 4:13. That will do you a world of good."
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