Comments for love blooms bright

Comment on Almost … by goforchris

goforchris — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:40:09 +0000

Thank you, Rosemary - glad you like it.

Comment on Nativity by Doug

Doug — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:36:07 +0000

How do you mean “badly expressed” Rosemary?

Ah yes, I have seen a lot of depictions of the multi-nationed Magi, I think it would have been similar to that, possibly more than the usual 3, coming from afar.

Thats often what my church is like, multi-national, most Sundays.

Comment on Almost … by rosemaryhannah

rosemaryhannah — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:12:25 +0000

You kept the best to last.

Comment on Nativity by rosemaryhannah

rosemaryhannah — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:23:49 +0000

The Magi are masculine plural. Any group containing one man, or one masculine member, will, in both Greek and Latin, automatically take the masculine plural. If one takes the Bible as a matter of the written words ( ) we therefore know only that one of a group of two or more persons was male. Logic dictates that one might, therefore, have had one male Magi, and five women, and still have have a masculine-gendered group.

When I used to make crib sets, I employed the myth of magi of different nations. I had a male Chinese magi, an African chief, and an Indian widow. She was being shown the Christ child by a barefoot shepherd-child, whose mother, I reasoned, would have been on the scene much earlier, while the burly father knelt by the fragile Chinese visitor.

But I agree with the disgraceful way we treat children as thought they were accessories to be afforded, rather than the building block of healthy life. Badly expressed

Comment on Nativity by wonderfulexchange

wonderfulexchange — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:03:08 +0000

I was thinking along the same lines this morning. We no longer stone young girls who get pregnant, but we exactly care for them either.

As for female Magae — surely just in honour of Hagia Sophia, no? Highly appropriate.

Comment on End game? by fallinangel06

fallinangel06 — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:23:52 +0000

i too feel tired, lets hope 2008 isn’t as stressful..

Comment on The flocks by Doug

Doug — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:20:53 +0000

That is brilliant.

Comment on A God who comes by rosemaryhannah

rosemaryhannah — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:59:27 +0000

Oddly enough, I have been thinking myself on not dissimilar lines. this really chimes in with where I am just now (as they say!)

Comment on A God who comes by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:37:28 +0000

This is great. Thanks for posting. I especially like the part about God being inside our longings.

Comment on A God who comes by Sarah SSM

Sarah SSM — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:38:26 +0000

This is really good. Thank you.