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A Journey through Lent
“Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace." Matt 6:6 (The MSG)
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Day 91 - The light at the centre
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Carlo Saraceni 1579-1620 | @Sheffield Museums You may struggle to find the story of Judith in your...
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May 14, 20243 min read
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Day 84 - Imagination
Portrait de joueurs d'echecs / Portrait of Chess Players by Marcel Duchamp, 1911 | Oil on canvas | Philadelphia Museum of Art Truly I...
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May 7, 20243 min read
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Day 77 - My Lord I Meet in Every London Lane and Street
1931| Oil on Canvas | Mark Lancelot Symons (1886–1935) | Held in a private collection This is one of a series of paintings that Symons...
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Apr 30, 20242 min read
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Day 70 - The Pretender
Much has been written about the creative talents of Lewis Capaldi and the well-documented challenges he has faced in the last 12 months....
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Apr 23, 20243 min read
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Day 63 - The constant among our confusion
Elasticity by Umberto Boccioni, 1912 Oil on canvas, 100x100cm: Museo del Novecento, Milan. Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a...
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Apr 16, 20243 min read
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Day 56 - Lost in the swirl
[Picture: Painting (unknown) seen in El Meson D’Bari restaurant in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic] I would make a terrible art critic....
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Apr 9, 20243 min read
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Day 49 - Sweet to the taste
I went to Church on Sunday. Before the service they served us coffee. Halfway through the service they served us coffee. And after the...
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Apr 2, 20243 min read
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Day 42 - The Last Supper
Mark Lancelot Symons | oil on canvas | 1933 | Reading Museum I spotted this painting on a trip to Reading where we had gone to see a 19th...
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Mar 26, 20242 min read
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Day 35 - God of all
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. (Revelation 22:13). The Uncertainty of the Poet by...
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Mar 19, 20242 min read
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Day 28 - The silence of our friends
[Picture: “The Problem We All Live With”, Norman Rockwell, 1964] Ruby Bridges is six. It’s 14th November 1960 and it’s her first day at...
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Mar 12, 20243 min read
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Day 21 - Pressing on
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus...
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Mar 5, 20243 min read
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Day 14 - Lonely in a sea of faces
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Un bar aux Folies Bergère) by Édouard Manet: 1882 | Oil on canvas | Courtauld Gallery, London I can remember...
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Feb 27, 20242 min read
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Day 7 - Give my heart
You may know that one of the hymnwriters I fell in love with as a very small child was Christina Georgina Rossetti. I loved her exotic...
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Feb 20, 20243 min read
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