{"id":1644,"date":"2016-01-12T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-the-river-of-grace\/"},"modified":"2016-01-12T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T14:05:02","slug":"in-the-river-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-the-river-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"In the river of grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Faithful Finch<\/em><\/p>\n

I love it when things fall into place when I’ve been trying to figure something out.\u00a0That happened for me today.
\nI haven’t been able to get the central work of Frammenti<\/em>, our present art exhibit, out of my mind. It was like it was trying to tell me something, and I wasn’t hearing it. I knew that the cross was a traditional form that was associated with baptistries, and that there were bands of gold and red to suggest steps descending and ascending.
\nWhen I would go into church, I would look at our baptismal font and think about the steps going in and out of the baptismal water and associate it with the cross.
\nLast night, I went back and read the Frammenti<\/em> book that explains the pieces in the exhibit. It says, “the baptismal experience itself evokes both a descent into the tomb and the triumph of resurrection,” and “that the resurrection is a daily movement as the confession of sin and the desire for renewal are met by the mercy of God.”<\/p>\n

I think I forget to climb back up the steps and come out of the tomb sometimes.\u00a0Above the cross are fragments that hold such beauty and joy; beauty and joy that I forget are part of the process.
\nI had no idea that Sunday was the “Feast of the Baptism of our Lord” until I got to church. It felt like a real celebration — a celebration that if we will stay in that “river of grace”, He will bring us home.<\/p>\n

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A cross, part of the Frammenti exhibit by artists Susan Kanaga and Filippo Rossi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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