Saturday, May 5, 2012

Suffering Servants

RIC_4211-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_4211-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Weathered rocks and weathered faces remind us that we
     should not move through time as conquerors, but as
     suffering servants.

       Gregory Wolfe, 
       "A Theology of Erosion," Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and
       Mystery

2 comments:

  1. "I met a traveler from an ancient land who said two vast and trunk less legs of stone stand in the desert . . . .Nothing beside remains"
    Shelley

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  2. Ozymandias is one of my favourite poems.

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