A friend shared with me a story this week about a painting that won a competition in which artists were challenged to depict the word "peace.” Entrants included beautiful landscapes and mother/child images of all sorts, but the winner showed a cliff being pounded by wind, sleet and ocean waves. Tucked into a little cleft was a bird, safe and dry. The artist used that to depict our Christian life: not a life of tranquility, free of storms but peace through the storms. It also ties into the story of the house on the sand and the house on the rock—the lesson is not that the house on the rock goes untouched by the storm; the difference is that the house stands strong.
That's what these Notre Dame cross images made me think of this week
and they are so poignant on this Good Friday.
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