My dear Friends,
The time of and after Pentecost is a time of Peace.
So I wrote another reflection and paited another picture.
Enjoy
PEACE b 2 u
When you hear or read about or reflect about or talk about PEACE, then you may react in a number of ways.
Peace is the absence of war. It is freedom, liberty or good health.
When you have lived during a war, with all the anxiety and pain, loss of life, fear to loose freedom,to get killed, to get imprisoned or tortured.
How would you react?
Would you fight back, hate the enemy, kill??
Would you try to negotiate compromise, forgive, and make up?
How many countries are at war? Is it because people are afraid to loose land?
Is it because they don’t trust the other or because they may loose their freedom?
How many communities are dysfuntioning because of no or bad communication?
How many families experience misunderstanding, fights and abuse?
Watching TV, reading paper, internet, emails etc, you know all about the above.
“Peace be to you” said Jesus. And we try to say it to people we meet.
When I paint I do this often from memory. Anything is then possible.
It depends on my mood, my feelings, even my health.
What I remember could be what happened yesterday or fifty years ago.
Sometimes the result may be peaceful.
Last week I painted another nature scene.
A usual the painting created itself: The lines follow nature; the colours balance themselves; after some time I feel myself in the painting and feel peaceful. I saw my friend meditating under the tree.
I emailed the painting to a friend and the reaction,which you can read on the page 2 below.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Peace is in the hart of the beloved.
Whether at the table or on a bolder,
Whether in a café or in a palace,
Whether in a committee room or parliament,
Whether on the border or coast,
Whether in a hospital room or jail,
Whether at a font or sickbed,
Whether in the Eucharist or Confession,
In the hart of the beloved there is Shalom.
At all these places,
Where there is beauty, there is Creation.
Where there is Incarnation, there is Hope,
Where there is Resurrection, there is peace.
Where there is love, God is present.
PEACE b 2 u
God Bless
John Heijnen 03.06.10
Page 2
A friend of mine saw the paiting above and emailed in reply:
I really love this painting, I think it is awesome, and I also love the title. I think it all works so well. It has a lovely swoop of the bright yellow and that with the tilt of theground, gives a feeling of being surrounded with the peace even when things are not even and ordered.
All the ways you have worked the colours between light and dark is really powerful and also joyful.
Thank you so much for sending it.
Peace b2u +2u2
