Resurrection Images
Growing with Jesus
"And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor." --Luke 2:52 Tucked at the end of the second chapter of Luke's gospel is the one account we have of Jesus growing from a child into an adult (Luke 2:41-52). He is twelve years old and accompanies his family on the yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. When the family begins the journey back home to Nazareth in the north, Jesus stays in Jerusalem. Realizing his absence, his frantic parents return to the holy city and--after searching three days--discover Jesus sitting among the teachers in the Temple, "listening and asking them questions." Luke writes: "And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers." The anxious ...
The first picture is sculpted in my Mommom's church, I find that to me it seems like he is trying to hold and help the whole world but he is only one person so I find that picture/sculpture very interesting.
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I have always been moved by that sculpture. Jesus breaking out of the tomb . . . and out of all the boxes we would put him in to limit our discomfort at how broad and unstoppable his love is!
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My mind goes to what must he have been thinking to himself at this moment? It would be interesting to compile the words that we are all thinking. What might Jesus be feeling as he moved the stone? Is he enjoying the warmth of the sun once again? Now he has to gather all his strength to continue sharing the word of the lord.
What the first image looks like for me is that he is holding a burden to carry like sin
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