Good morning…
I saw this evocative image in a cool store yesterday.
Expressive.
Moving.
Poignant.
I snapped a photo and went home to research the artist, Benjamin Williamson. Here is some of what he says about his art.
“I hope these images bring you a sense of the deep connection that I’ve felt when making them,” Benjamin writes. “That’s my number one goal when I’m out with my camera. I want to be totally connected with what is in front of me. When I’m in the zone, I don’t know where I end, and the world around me begins. There is no ‘me’, only ‘we’. When I’m successful at this, I think you will feel it when you view my work.”
Even amid our many differences, Benjamin knows we are all cut from the same human cloth, breath and blood, soul and spirit. As Genesis 1:27 explains in the Message translation: God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature so they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth.” God created human beings; he created them godlike, reflecting God’s nature.
I think that Benjamin would agree with Italian Catholic mystic, Catherine of Sienna, who was born on March 25th, 1347 and died on April, 29th, 1380. Catherine of Sienna trusts this truth. “The deepest me is God.”
The deepest me is God. The deepest you is God. Therefore, it stands to reason: “the deepest ‘we’ is God.”
Today, as we offer care to all living things, might we notice ourselves reflecting the nature of our Creator in increasing measure?
…Sue…
