Lent Meditation: Fluid grace of the love of GodWater is the element that can be present in all the others and so is a potent symbol for God. In his third reflection for Lent, Luke Bell looks at water both as metaphor and as a life-giving forceIn our Lenten struggle for an apparently elusive unselfishness, we have a powerfulf help in a natural symbol: water. The art historian Spike Bucklow has helpfully elucidated its symbolic force in his book The Riddle of the Image: “Water obeys with grace because whenever it is transformed, its transformations are unfailingly beautiful. … Unifying blankets of snow are countless filigree crystals, glistening dew drops are innumerable perfect spheres, and intangible mists magically arise, softly envelop and silently vanish … Water&rsq
20 March 2014, The Tablet
Lent Meditation: Fluid grace of the love of God
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