Monday, September 27th, 2021

Hello —

Today, I learned something new and thought I would share. I have had a vision of sorts, a flash of an image came into my thoughts. This flash lead me to search the internet and this is the image.

This piece of artwork is one of the world’s most famous and a universal symbol of anxiety. I honestly thought this artwork was done by Vincent Van Gogh, I stand corrected…it is by Edvard Munch.

5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE SCREAM

1. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THE SCREAM

2. THE SCREAM IS A RIDDLE

3. THE SCREAM IS ALSO A TEXT

4. THE SCREAM NEEDS TO BE CARED FOR

5. THE SCREAM HAS A DOUBLE-LIFE

This piece of art and its distinctive gesture is generally understood as an expression of horror. This makes it easily employable for all sorts of visual communication, ranging from topical caricatures in mass media to personal messages in emoji sign language.

Please click here for the entire article:

https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/the-collection/5-things-you-should-know-about-the-scream/

Additional information:

EDVARD MUNCH’S LIFE 1863-1944

https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/edvard-munch/edvard-munch-timeline/

10 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT EDVARD MUNCH

https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/edvard-munch/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-edvard-munch/

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you learned something new today. I appreciate your support. Below is a new favorite of mine as of today by Edvard Munch. (1902 – 1916: REBORN)

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
~ Revelation 7:9-10 (NIV) ~

~Charlotte, Seeker of unexpected Comfort, Happiness, Joy and Patience.

Hello friends & family,

Thank you so much for taking time to view my post. I discovered a beautiful hymn and wanted to share it. My hope is that you too will be blessed by it. As I was digging deeper into the song and the song writer I found myself searching for more and more. The song “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” was written by Helen H. Lemmel (1863-1961) in 1922.

Helen was a gifted concert soloist, a music teacher at the Moody Bible Institute, and music critic for the Seattle Post.

She also worked as director of a woman’s choral group that was a regular part of the Billy Sunday evangelical meetings. Helen wrote the words and music of Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus in 1922, to be sung at those meetings.

The inspiration for Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, which Helen entitled The Heavenly Vision, came from the writings of author and artist Lilias Trotter (1853-1928).

Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853–1928) was a gifted artist and Protestant missionary to Algeria during the Victorian Era.

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

By: Helen H. Lemmel

“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:12 —

~Charlotte, Seeker of unexpected Comfort, Happiness, Joy and Patience.

References:

https://www.oregonlive.com/religion/2012/04/eyes_upon_jesus.html

http://www.theconservationcenter.com/articles/2084427-lilias-trotter-missionary-artist

https://wherelivingbegins.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/helen-lemmel-1863-1961/.

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/e/m/m/lemmel_hh.htm

Books by I. Lilias Trotter

Between the Desert and the Sea 

Parables of the Cross

Parables of the Christ-life

The Master of the Impossible

The Way of the Seven-fold Secret                                                         

Booklets by I.Lilias Trotter

Back-ground and Fore-ground

A Challenge to Faith

Cherry Blossom

Focussed:  A Story and a Song

The Glory of the Impossible 

Heavenly Light on the Daily Path

A Life on Fire

Literature for Moslem Boys

A Ripened Life

Sand Lilies

Smouldering

A South Land

A Thirsty Land and God’s Channels

Trained to Rule

Vibrations

Winter Buds     

Story Parables by I. Lilias Trotter

The Bag of Wool

The Bedouin and His Camel

The Blood Feud of El Hanouchi

The Debt of Ali Ben Omar

The field of Sahab en Niya

Landsnakes and Seasnakes

The Letter That Came from a Far Country

The Lost Ones in the Sahara

Neseefa the Slave Girl

The Robe of Er-Rashid

The Story of the Nightingale

Water Lilies:  A Paper for Mothers

Books about I. Lilias Trotter

Elisabeth Elliot.  A Path Through Suffering.  Meditations based on Trotter’s Parables of the Cross and Parables of the Christ-life.  Ann Arbor:  Vine books, 1992 (in print).

Constance E. Padwick.  I. Lilias Trotter. Croydon:  Watson, n.d.

Blanche A. F. Pigott.  I. Lilias Trotter.  London:  Marshall, 1929.

Miriam Rockness.  A Passion for the Impossible:  The Life of Lilias Trotter. Discovery House Publishers, 1999. (in print).

Miriam Rockness.  A Blossom in the Desert:  Reflections of Faith in the Art and Writings of Lilias Trotter.  Discovery House Publishers, 2007.  (in print)

I . R. Govan Stewart.  The Love That Was Stronger.  London:  Lutterworth Press, 1958.

Patricia St. John.  Until The Day Breaks.  Bronley, Kent:  OM Publishing 1990 (in print).

*All works, unless otherwise noted, are out of print. Copies of these works are housed at the Trotter Archives at the Arab World Ministries United Kingdom Headquarters in Loughborough, England.

With all the strife in the world today, the least we can do is to live in peace with ourselves, our neighbors, our families. And if we see someone in…

Embrace Contentment

Dear friends & followers,

Thank you for stopping by my blog site today. I can hardly believe it is September already, summer will be ending and fall is ever nearer. I don’t mind the change in seasons, well…except for bitter coldness and snow of winter. We must endure and appreciate the gifts that each season brings us. The past couple of years have been especially tough and it is my sincere hope that things will improve in the very near future. I had a dear friend share a prayer with me this past week and I have been reading it several times a day. I even used it as my wallpaper on my phones locked screen. I want and desire a closer walk with Jesus. I feel as if the world around is going mad, at times. So much hate and distrust, more fighting and less love. Common sense has taken the back seat and great divisions are being plowed through our sense of humanity. I believe that people around the world are more alike than different, if we would just listen. I am compassionate about a lot of things and the reality is that I cannot pursue all of them at the same time. The world is filled with countless opportunities, the one thing we all can do is prayer. Listen to God’s call, where is He leading your heart and spirit to help. Each of us are called to different things, trust in God to show you His way. I hope you find encouragement from this prayer and the songs I rely on for hope.

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Prayer by Phyllis Tickle

“Grant me, I beseech thee,

O merciful God, prudently to study,

rightly to understand

and perfectly to fulfill that which is pleasing to thee,

to the praise and glory to thy name.

—Amen

(The Divine Hours, Summertime, pg 476)

Quotes from Phyllis Tickle

“Prayer is a nonlocative, nongeographic space that one enters at one’s own peril, for it houses God during those few moments of one’s presence there, and what is there will most surely change everything that comes into it. Prayer, its opal walls polished to transparency by the centuries of hands that have touched them, is the Tabernacle realized and the wayside chapel utilized.

— Prayer Is a Place

“Like a double helix rendered elegant by complexity and splendid by authority, the amalgam of gospel and shared meal and the discipline of fixed-hour prayer were and have remained the chain of golden connection tying Christian to Christ and Christian to Christian across history, across geography, and across idiosyncrasies of faith.”

— The Divine Hours

Genesis 8:22 (NIV)

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Wisdom from C.S.Lewis—

“He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so
that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an
immemorial theme. He gives them in His Church a spiritual ear; they change from a fast to a feast, but it is the same feast as before

— The Screwtape Letters

“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
— 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

~Charlotte, Seeker of unexpected Comfort, Happiness, Joy and Patience.

References:

https://www.biblegateway.com/

Good article about seasons of change: 3 BIBLE VERSES FOR SEASONS OF CHANGE

https://www.bethesdaseniorliving.com/blog/3-bible-verses-for-seasons-of-change