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It’s Holy Week, and for some reason, I am spiritually
tired. This
is inexplicable because this year I haven’t even had to deal with the spiritual
overload of simultaneous Lent and Passover prep, with all its egg-whipping and
matzo-soaking. Passover is still a month
away.
If a mere layperson like me is
feeling this way, I can only imagine how clergy must feel. And then, think of how spiritually exhausting
a week it must have been for Jesus, back during the Original Holy Week.
So to counteract spiritual malaise, I continue to
look for beauty. Here is something I
find beautiful and which is, at least tangentially, related to Holy Week. This is a jigsaw puzzle painted by Older
Daughter, and given to us as a Christmas present.
Older Daughter is very creative, and God is very
creative, and, so, holiness is to be found in creativity.
It is a puzzle; the events of Holy Week are
puzzling (to say the least).
We had this puzzle on our dining room table since
Christmas. Just last week I discovered
that it is missing a piece. This makes
me very sad, as my darling daughter made it, and I wanted to frame it. (That’s what I get for being such a procrastinator!) But the missing piece is
indicative of Holy Week, too, in that despite all the goodness of God that
Christians believe comes from the Original Holy Week, there are still so many unanswered
questions about this world and our lives.
I’m not sure I’m even making sense, but I stumble along and lean on my
hope that God is not finished yet.
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| This is what the world looked like at the beginning of creation, before it was missing a piece. |
6 comments:
That painting is BEAUTIFUL. And a painting as a jigsaw puzzle? I feel like I need to take gift-giving lessons from your daughter, as I generally suck at gift-giving.
Spiritual malaise. *deep sigh* Yeah. How many times a week (day, hour, minute) do I say, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" particularly during those tough, I-don't-understand times. I love the idea of looking for beauty in those seasons, and I know it also helps me to remember that I've been here before, and came out the other side, bright and frisky and excited again.
You are making perfect sense, your daughter is talented in both art and gift-giving, and while I am not spiritually tired, I am tired because it is Holy Week and I work in a church. (Maybe I'd be spiritually tired if I had time to consider things more deeply than trying to remember which details go into which service and when to change the parament colors.)
This post is a balm to me. So much can make us weary, and God reminds us all the time to BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD. Your daughter's lovely puzzle shows his gift of creativity. And beauty.
Happy Easter!
What a wonderful painting and gift --your daughter is talented indeed :-)
Beautiful painting! Clever idea to turn it into a jigsaw puzzle.
It's lovely! I hope the missing piece turns up. You never know.
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