i’m writing this post 5 days before it’s going live; but as this goes live, i will have just started (last night) a 3-night, 4-day silent retreat. i’ve had a rhythm, over the past three years, of doing these quarterly, and have found them so critical to my mental, emotional, and spiritual health. but, i’m overdue, by a couple months, to keep my “quarterly” time frame. so i am SO ready for this.
i saw this awesome video a couple weeks ago. it’s a beautiful and insightful collection of drawings (really, cartoons) representing the 40 days jesus spent in the wilderness. (illustrations by a British illustrator named Simon Smith, and put to an Explosions In The Sky song.) when i first saw this video, it made me think of my upcoming silent retreat; so i saved it to post on this day. i’m no jesus, and i hope i don’t get confronted by the devil in the same way; but i recognized some of the emotions and moods as stuff i experience on these retreats.
(ht to mark riddle for the video)
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Cool Video – thought provoking
Pic 39 was cool – made me think of James 4:7 “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Great picture depicting the reality of that which we see in this gospel account.
Two others:
Would Jesus flap like a bird or throw rocks (don’t remember the pic number on those)…why not…fully God, fully man. I might do those things. Jesus’ humanity might too.
Pic 10 – especially after sleeping in pic 9 – looks like a Starbucks run is needed. I know that face from taking others on retreat (and away from Starbucks)!
This is so awesome, I am doing a series on the number 40 in the Bible and the 40 days of Lent as well. Next week is Jesus 40 days in the desert….thanks.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing it. Hope you come back with new vision, new energy, and a new filling of the Holy Spirit!
Powerful!
Wow! I have been really needing to do something like what you’re doing. Reminded me to look into trying to figure out a place. Thanks!