Pure joy.WE SURRENDER TO JOY: We have no option. Margaret Neve's girl dances in the moonlight, resting upon the silky silky female spirit who does household chores. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 364–365] See : Domesticity air as the great moon rests on the soft waters. She throws her arms out wide as if to float backward, held up by pure joy. This gesture of embrace, opening as widely and welcomingly as is possible, marks the experience. Joy is felt as profoundly "right," as "what ought to be." In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so--that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance. By SISTER WENDY BECKETT Sister Wendy Beckett (born February 25 1930) is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became an unlikely celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC. of Norfolk, England, well-known for her BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television art series and her popular art books. Reprinted with permission from: Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations (DK Publishing, 1998; 877-342-5357). Painting: By Moonlight, by Margaret Neve (1994, DK Publishing,). |
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