Remember how you experienced Christmas as a child. Value the happy moments. If you were hurt or wounded as a child during those experiences, be a loving parent to that part of you that is raw and unhealed. Be gentle with yourself and love that hurt child.
John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
The painting is beautiful. Who is the artist?
ReplyDeleteAre you speaking about the blue painting of the mother and child? I'll have to go back and verify. It is a famous painter who tried a different method than we are used to seeing. The image is a closeup of a destitute woman and child in the city's slums. Still the mother finds such joy.
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