Wounded in Spirit: Advent Art and Meditations A 25-Day Illustrated Advent Devotional for the Grieving with Scriptures and Stories Drawn from the Works and Lives of Artists, Poets, and Theologians |
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| Author:
| Bannon, David
Yancey, Philip |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64060-269-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2018 |
| Publisher: | Paraclete Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $23.99 |
Book Description:
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Depression and suicides spike at Christmas, as loneliness and the memories of lost loved ones invade the background cheer. My own father died in mid-December, before his twenty-fourth birthday, an untimely death that forever cast a pall over our family's Christmases. We know, all of us, the dissonance of which Simeon spoke to Mary: of love splattered with blood, of consolation that proves diffused and fleeting. Art brings that dissonance to the foreground, with a poignancy that...
More DescriptionDepression and suicides spike at Christmas, as loneliness and the memories of lost loved ones invade the background cheer. My own father died in mid-December, before his twenty-fourth birthday, an untimely death that forever cast a pall over our family's Christmases. We know, all of us, the dissonance of which Simeon spoke to Mary: of love splattered with blood, of consolation that proves diffused and fleeting. Art brings that dissonance to the foreground, with a poignancy that wounds the spirit like a sword.
--Philip Yancey, from the foreword