Saturday, October 22, 2011

Orchids and Light


Orchids in Different Light

The artist Evelyn Dunbar has said:
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Your special light is not quite like anyone else's light.  When our particular light is a true light, it flows from and participates in the light of God. 

In an essay called, "The Light Within," the Quaker Thomas R. Kelly writes:
Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto Itself. Yielding to these persuasions, gladly committing ourselves in body and soul, utterly and completely, to the Light Within, is the beginning of true life. It is a dynamic center, a creative Life that presses to birth within us. It is a Light Within that illumines the face of God and casts new shadows and new glories upon the human face. It is a seed stirring to life if we do not choke it. It is the Shekinah of the soul, the Presence in the midst. Here is the Slumbering Christ, stirring to be awakened, to become the soul we clothe in earthly form and action. And He is within us all.  (A Testament of Devotion)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was interested in the quote from artist Evelyn Dunbar 1906-1960 who fostered me as a child for a short while at the end of her life. You probably know she came from a family of Christian Scientists. Are you able to pinpoint where the quote came from? Thank you

Anonymous said...

...After googling the quote I now see I may have 'mixed two artists' with same name. One associated with the USA and 'mine' being WW2 artist of the UK.

Failey said...

I didn't know there were two. Are you sure she's not the same Evelyn Dunbar?