Today we remember Christ in the middle of being
savagely murdered. Our record of His
serenity during the process must never cloak the truth that it was violent,
brutal and prolonged. Artists, like
Christians, are often tempted to allow the brutality of life to be the
story. Christ didn’t nor did Picasso
when he painted his famous work Guernica about the small Spanish village bombed
by Hitler as practice for his Luftwaffe and retribution of Franco on his
enemies. In the painting Picasso painted
a flower in the lower middle to symbolize the hope of peace.
Even though we must remember what we did to The Son of God, He
allows, “fixing
our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before
him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God.”
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