God Thought About You, And So I Am Here
8×10″ markers on paper
February 1, 2013
Inspired by the following passage from the poem “Baby” by George MacDonald:
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I walked by.
What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than anyone knows….
How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.
But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought about you, and so I am here.
St. Augustine in His Study
11×14″ acrylic on canvas
February 7, 2013
Inspired by the following passage from Augustine’s Confessions (11.2.3):
“Lord, perfect me, and open those pages to me. Behold, your voice is my joy, your voice is above a flood of pleasures….
Do not forsake your gifts, and do not despise this your plant which thirsts for you.”
People of the Book: Loving For the Sake of that Toward Which We Are Carried
16×16″ acrylic on canvas
February 7, 2013
Inspired by the following passage from Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine:
“The plenitude and the end of the Law and of all the sacred Scriptures is the love of a Being which is to be enjoyed and of a being that can share that enjoyment with us…
We should use it, not with an abiding but with a transitory love and delight like that in a road or in vehicles or in other instruments, or, if it may be expressed more accurately, so that we love those things by which we are carried along for the sake of that toward which we are carried.”
You Breathed Your Fragrance on Me
11×14″ chalk pastels on paper
October 12, 2012
Inspired by a line in Augustine’s Confessions, from which the title takes its name.
The Winter is Past, the Time of Singing Has Come
16×16″ acrylic on canvas
January 29, 2013
My beloved spoke, and said to me:
“Rise up, my love, my fair one,
And come away.
For lo, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth;
The time of singing has come.”
Solomon 2:10-12
For Ferg, Jane, & Nehemiah Breen
