“At the same time, my mother’s parents were at the point in their life when they were beginning to downsize, moving out of the house where they raised eight children into a small two-bedroom apartment in a high rise.
That house would be her artwork, a manifestation of her sense of beauty. She knew it would take time, but was looking forward to the process, to the slow acquisition of the perfect pieces. “My mother couldn’t wait to get furniture to fill this new house. We were finally getting a space where we could all eat together, instead of spread out in two or three separate spaces. When I was 13, my parents built a new house, much larger than the old house, with five bedrooms and three bathrooms, a huge family room and a formal dining room. “There is a story in my family that is a favorite. “And it got me thinking in the last couple weeks about the other things that get interpreted differently and by different standards. “Have you ever ever yucked it up in front of a whole group of people, only to find yourself a couple weeks later having to go back to them, with your hat in your hand, and apologize? “And beauty isn’t the only thing that is experienced differently from person to person. “Marilyn was proof that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. “I talked very briefly about the artwork here on these three panels, and how even though she loved the process, she didn’t love the outcome, at least not that first year. She appreciated people with style and taste, even as she recognized that style and taste are very personal and that tastes - good taste, even - vary widely.
She was an artist, a person for whom beauty and aesthetics were very important. “Yesterday I had the opportunity to do a eulogy for our late member Marilyn Barber, who died in October. The virtues of the pious are washed away because of his pride, and the sins of the thief are washed away because of his humility and repentance.” The virtues of the pious and the sins of the thief are washed clean. Immediately Christ heard the Divine Voice say, “Tell the pious one and the thief that I have washed clean the scrolls of both.
On the other hand, the pious man, seeing the thief seated by his side, reprimanded the thief, lest his shadow corrupt him. He considered himself unfit to sit by the side of such a saint. Prompted by humility in his heart, the thief started condemning himself for the impious life he had led. A thief seeing this thought to himself, “If I sit in the company of the pious one, perhaps God may for his sake forgive me.” “However, if you want a companion in God whose burden you will carry and whose pain you will bear, then I have a multitude I can introduce you to.”Ģ. Junaid replied, “If you want a companion to provide for you and to bear your burden, such are few and far between.” He paused. A man said to Junaid, “true companions are scarce in these times. Of Persian origin, he was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians and mystics of Sunni Islam.ġ.
The first Sunday of the Month is Food Sunday, with a collection of nonperishable food items and personal hygiene products for the Salvation Army in Painesville.Ībū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, who lived from 1058 to 1111, is known in the West simply as Al-Ghazzali. Maybe the beauty is lies in the places we go from there. The easiest way to deal with that differences is to say simply that we pledge ourselves “not to think alike.” but maybe there’s more to it than that. Everything we do that has visual or physical presence elicits a wide variety of responses. But all you have to do to see the truth of the statement is to look around at the artwork in our congregation. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder.
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