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January 2005, Page 1.
Index of articles:
by subject,
by date.
In this issue:
(January 2005)
A Link?
Alpha,
Talk about Jesus,
Baa Woof,
Qu'ran Christmas?.
A Link from whom to whom?
We haven't yet worked out |
William Blake painted his picture "The Ancient of Days" in 1794. He lived in the days when people were newly discovering science, and the received religious wisdom of the world was being questioned. He wanted to picture God sending forth his power to create the universe, but at the same time show that God was majestic beyond conception. The top part of this picture is Blake's work: it hangs in the British Museum and it is very famous.
And underneath is a tiny planet: so tiny that Blake didn't put it in his picture, so I had to add it. It orbits an insignificant star far out in a spiral arm of a galaxy which has millions of other stars in it ... and there are billions of other galaxies in the universe. The life forms on this planet are so incredibly primitive that they still consider the internet to be a wonderful piece of technology.
How could God possibly be bothered with such creatures? As Psalm 8 says: "What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?"
But, surprisingly, God does care for such creatures, so much so that he made a Link between himself and them. So I adapted Blake's picture. Can you see the Link?
I wonder if you believe that you're an insignificant little creature, like a piece of dust in the cosmos, and how could God care about you? If you do feel that, maybe you need to discover a Link between you and God. There is one, and that's what this church magazine (as well as St Luke's Church) is all about. John Hartley
John Hartley