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Peace & joy 4 #artofpeace #artofjoy #loveyourself #artworld #followart #folioartists #abstractlandscape #colorfulart #bibiart #habibayatart https://www.instagram.com/p/CBx6k-DjSfS/?igshid=c95d071lg5d0

The man blind from birth knows already that he believe. in stages. by acting on it. in different ways and by different means than the development of faith we’ve seen in the Royal Official, the paralytic, the Samaritan Woman, the Centurion. No one’s faith development and pace are identical. The Pharisees are so encrusted with envy, the need for power, the need for recognition, the need to be right, be worshiped, that they can’t see goodness. They don’t even try. This man who was blind from birth can now see, for heaven’s sake! Why isn’t anybody rejoicing?! They are absolutely not choosing to notice the beauty of healing, of life – of God-made-flesh – before their very eyes. It’s his own pace of faith development, and they can’t control that. It is a practice. And it’s only by practicing – well, and the outpouring of God’s graces & mercy on us every moment of every day – it’s in persistent, intentional spiritual exercise that the fruit of practicing this kind of seeing, training our eyes to notice the hints of goodness, the tints of laughter, the hues of friendship, the color of love shown by the phone call from my gorgeous neighbor from around the corner just to make sure my family is ok. It’s from this practice that judgment turns to discernment – discerning what Jesus is doing in this moment to bring me back to myself, to bring focus back to the Source of EVERYTHING, to open my eyes to true seeing, the sight of the Child of Humankind ReCreating me – and you –everything before our very eyes. How is Jesus recreating you in your space – even in the midst of this pandemic? What is keeping you from experiencing joy? we choose cultivate something deeper, true, that has the power to suffuse us. We choose the bits of happinesses when darkness is present, see the goodness when so much around us looks grim. It’s not a putting one’s head in the sand. Rather, it’s meeting the darkness, the grim, the same four walls we’re confined to for the unforeseeable future – with a deep, abiding sense of joy that we are alive! That God is always present. Jesus’ work is being done in us, blind now seeing. Then we see beauty for all it’s worth - Art. What joy! The #artofjoy https://www.instagram.com/p/B-GZHNsAM-L/?igshid=sst8scjq5khv

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