{"id":16755,"date":"2018-05-15T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16755"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:42:17","slug":"new-images-help-us-see-new-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16755","title":{"rendered":"New Images Help Us See New Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art: Week 1<br \/>\nNew Images Help Us See New Realities<br \/>\nTuesday, May 15, 2018<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0OpzyAG_yxc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Let there be light. \u2014Genesis 1:3<\/strong><br \/>\nThe light of divine revelation . . . pierces but does not castigate the darkness. \u2014Barbara Holmes [1]<br \/>\nJust as Pope Francis has catalyzed a worldwide imaginal change today, Francis and Clare of Assisi created a very different imaginarium for many people in their time. They showed us that Christianity could be joyful, simple, sweet, and beautiful. As St. Francis is often quoted as saying, \u201cYou must preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary use words.\u201d This demands no \u201cbelief\u201d or theology whatsoever, but only eyes wide open.<br \/>\nEven art shifted in response to the Franciscan movement\u2014as we can see in the humanistic art of Giotto\u2014eventually leading to the Renaissance where all things human could be honored and celebrated as good in themselves. St. Francis is hardly ever pictured with a book, like so many saints. Many paintings of Francis do not even include a halo. It is not necessary. His enlivened body is already the halo. Francis is usually shown dancing, in ecstasy, with animals, or with his arms raised; his hands were hardly ever folded in prayer, as was the stereotypical style.<br \/>\nIn the great basilica in Assisi where Francis is buried, there is a wonderful bronze sculpture of Francis inviting the Holy Spirit. Instead of looking upward as is usual, he gazes reverently and longingly downward\u2014into the earth\u2014where the Spirit is enmeshed. Francis understood that the Holy Spirit had in fact descended; she is forever and first of all here! There are artists who inherently understand incarnation.<br \/>\nOne person, symbol, or idea can set the course of history, and its meaning, in one direction instead of another. We recognize some individuals who \u201cturn\u201d history, art, music, and politics in new and unimagined ways, such as Francis of Assisi and, now, Pope Francis. Picasso (1881-1973) did this for painting, Martha Graham (1894-1991) and Michael Jackson (1958-2009) did the same for dance, and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) did it for physics and cosmology.<br \/>\nLeonard Shlain suggested that artists paved the way for new physics:<br \/>\nArt and physics, like wave and particle . . . are simply two different but complementary facets of a single description of the world. Integrating art and physics will kindle a more synthesized awareness which begins in wonder and ends with wisdom. . . .<br \/>\nShlain observed that several Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modern painters \u201ccontributed directly to the emancipation of color.\u201d Monet immersed \u201cthe viewer in the delight of color for color\u2019s sake.\u201d Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cezanne all used color in new ways to set mood and perspective and to create vitality. For Matisse and Fauvist artists, \u201ccolor was an end in itself . . . the colors in a painting were the painting.\u201d Shlain wrote:<br \/>\nEinstein\u2019s realization that light (which is color) is the quintessence of the universe paralleled the apotheosis [i.e., glorification or divinization] of light by the artists. Before Einstein made his discovery, Claude Monet announced that \u201cthe real subject of every painting is light.\u201d Echoing this sentiment, Einstein later commented, \u201cFor the rest of my life I want to reflect on what light is.\u201d [2]<br \/>\nToday I invite you to pay attention to light\u2014its colors and the wonderful shadows it casts\u2014and see the world in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Young, Sarah. Jesus Calling<\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p>SPENDING TIME alone with Me is essential for your well-being. It is not a luxury or an option; it is a necessity. Therefore, do not feel guilty about taking time to be with Me. Remember that Satan is the accuser of believers. He delights in heaping guilt feelings upon you, especially when you are enjoying My Presence. When you feel Satan\u2019s arrows of accusation, you are probably on the right track. Use your shield of faith to protect yourself from him. Talk with Me about what you are experiencing, and ask Me to show you the way forward. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to Me, and I will come near to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REVELATION 12:10;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-30902\" class=\"text Rev-12-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span class=\"text Rev-12-10\">\u201cNow have come the salvation and the power<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Rev-12-10\">and the kingdom of our God,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Rev-12-10\">and the authority of his Messiah.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Rev-12-10\">For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Rev-12-10\">who accuses them before our God day and night,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Rev-12-10\">has been hurled down<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>EPHESIANS 6:16;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-29354\" class=\"text Eph-6-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16\u00a0<\/sup>In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMES 4:7\u20138<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"top-05\"><span id=\"en-NIV-30345\" class=\"text Jas-4-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-30346\" class=\"text Jas-4-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art: Week 1 New Images Help Us See New Realities Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Let there be light. \u2014Genesis 1:3 The light of divine revelation . . . pierces but does not castigate the darkness. \u2014Barbara Holmes [1] Just as Pope Francis has catalyzed a worldwide imaginal change today, Francis and Clare of Assisi created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16760,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions\/16760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}