Paradise Landscape
Bruegel, Jan, 1568-1625. Paradise Landscape with Animals, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56933 [retrieved May 13, 2022]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Breughel_Ii_-_Paradise_Landscape_with_Animals_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
When I Wake Up in the Morning
When I wake up in the morning I had a pair of Good Glasses. I saw a woman and she told me her name was Miss Gilbert. She brought ice cream and a lot of things like dress shoes. I also saw a angel in the sky. She helped me out with things. She told me to imagine what was in my head so I said a lot things like Candy, ice-cream, cake and also childrens playing with toys and dancing.
But then I drop my Good Glasses and when I pick my Good Glasses up they had bad things written all over them. I saw that Miss Gilbert took all my Good that she gave me, and the Angel turn into a monster and my icecream melt. My shoes had a hole, and the sky turn into smoke and my cake disappeared before my very eyes. I like my Good Glasses.
Amalia G., age 14
When I wake up in the morning I had a pair of Good Glasses. I saw a woman and she told me her name was Miss Gilbert. She brought ice cream and a lot of things like dress shoes. I also saw a angel in the sky. She helped me out with things. She told me to imagine what was in my head so I said a lot things like Candy, ice-cream, cake and also childrens playing with toys and dancing.
But then I drop my Good Glasses and when I pick my Good Glasses up they had bad things written all over them. I saw that Miss Gilbert took all my Good that she gave me, and the Angel turn into a monster and my icecream melt. My shoes had a hole, and the sky turn into smoke and my cake disappeared before my very eyes. I like my Good Glasses.
Amalia G., age 14
Imaging the Word An Arts and Lectionary Resource, Volume 1
Spiritual Practices: Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina, or Diving Reading, is a method of reading, reflecting on, and praying the Scripture that has been used by the church for centuries. It focuses on communing with God in Scripture rather than simply studying Scripture for intellectual understanding. Click here for more information on how to practice Lectio Divina. Here are some suggested verses in this passage that may lend themselves to conversation with God through the practice of Lectio Divina.
Suggested Verses
Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21:3b-4)
And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment." (Revelation 21:6)
Lectio Divina, or Diving Reading, is a method of reading, reflecting on, and praying the Scripture that has been used by the church for centuries. It focuses on communing with God in Scripture rather than simply studying Scripture for intellectual understanding. Click here for more information on how to practice Lectio Divina. Here are some suggested verses in this passage that may lend themselves to conversation with God through the practice of Lectio Divina.
Suggested Verses
Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21:3b-4)
And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment." (Revelation 21:6)