Too often, instead of enjoying the beauty our Maker is
creating in and through us, we view God through the
lens of our personal weakness. Our theology is shaped by
what we lack rather than by who God is.
For example, if we see ourselves as a problem needing
a solution, we want God to be a mathematician.
If we see ourselves as broken and needing repair, we
want God to be a mechanic.
If we see ourselves as lonely, we want God to be a
friend.
If we see ourselves as ignorant, we want God to be a
teacher.
It’s as if we are all lining up to visit the Wizard of
Oz, each with our own deep deficiency, and the wizard
becomes to each of us what we need.
- from The Art of Being You
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We look forward to hearing how GOD is speaking through you this Sunday at Liberty Coomunity Church in Bealeton, VA. Have kept your song “Be Glorified” in my heart for many years! Praying for safe travels!
Imagine Sir Wild Good’s beloved wife, His passionate Lover -for whom He spilled all His Artistic Heart- up one day she does and sides with the leader of Cosmic Band Divided that stole some of the music He wrote.
With any Problem (alienation due to ‘core corruption’ not just ‘superficial pollution’) comes a Reaction: Anger & Grief. (Gen 6:6, Eze 6:9) Il know anger, but what of this grief? Is it not somehow emotional suffering proportional to intimacy and loss of intimacy? Think about it ‘close to home’ for a moment…. Who is this grief stricken Artist named ‘Wild Good’ anyway? http://www.clairvauxmanifesto.com (“Faith embraces Mystery. Hope believes mystery. Love dwells in Mystery” page 93 Clairvaux Manifesto. )
What is the Solution that follows Problem-Reaction? Last night at Casa Ramos in Chico CA I met this mathematically challenged guitar wielding ‘Let the Art Begin Bob’ tuning mechanic. I bet he’s onto something potter like and mysteriously good. i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typAqPJ-Zn8&feature=related and/or different take: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJgTv_yalfw&feature=related
‘Circle of Art Friends’ come together. It’s time!
p.s. Just read THE ART of BEING YOU intro written by Bob, inspired by ‘Wild Good’s Big Cat Artist’.
In June we pushed a red hot button and my dad became 5 lbs of ashes free of his ‘mortgage, marriage, pains, ans worries’…..a few days later on Newfoundland’s rugged coastline, Big Cat sent 4 literal birds of prey and other wonders to comfort a son. Matters math scratches head over and cannot equate.
This Being Art tool book by artsy math teacher mechanic is VERY timely and helpful for me…….yet I want more, to know and be known by amidst a mysterious growing ‘circle of quiet’ friends.
In reference to page 14 in THE ART of BEING YOU: Here’s a Selah by a Canadian artist heavy on the potter’s wheel- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJVcoO44ak&feature=related – that can be listened to after each horizontal line……. connected by one vertical Plumb-line running down the center?
PRIDE is MATH SACRIFICE is ART…..very interesting there Bob. What happens when 3P’s collide with 3S’s as sparks fly as MDG’s are fulfilled and global society soars to Center where Red and Blue dissolves to royal ‘Morado’, color of a mysterious Lion King? In hand I have a curious diagram to show you one day, ‘ Wild Good ‘ willing. Tomorrow I fly to Canada to meet the wild author of this artsy tool book: http://www.clairvauxmanifesto.com
So far this is what I’ve added to the list there Bob:
MATH gets PLEASURE PURE INTIMACY is PLEASURE
Looking forward to the “…greatest art show aver staged” that ” transcends canvas, clay, chords, or cinema”… Page 10-11 of ‘TABY’
Another Selah to color up the pondering track that Bob laid down for us:
Instrumental ‘Wind and The Wheat’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3iSiij98VY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQYrCOQrNrQ
The whole album is a 10 of Selahs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_and_the_Wheat
‘….Science is an art; every art has its science… a longing to express truth and master such expression into conviction… even if our conviction is, “nothing matters; nothing makes sense.”………….Mathematics, the code of the gods we have fast become to ourselves, until of course, we let each other fall though our grand schemes and equations….’ http://clairvauxmanifesto.com/2010/12/21/eclipse-alignment/