Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Job 6:1-4, 8-15, 21
“In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.”
In my college days, I was obsessed with the problem of suffering. I read every book and took every philosophy course I could to find answers to the kinds of questions that torment Job. As I’ve grown older, I’ve been drawn to the drama of art instead of the logic of philosophy to grapple with the world’s suffering. In my reflection today, I offer Picasso’s Guernica, a work he painted in reaction to the 1937 Nazi bombing of Guernica, a Basque town in Spain.
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I find no answers as I meditate on the painting. Instead, the work allows me to give voice to the fragmentation I can discover in myself and in the world. Guernica resists our desire to bring order and wholeness out of situations that make no sense. By honestly confronting the chaos, we can experience moments of transcendence reminding us that God’s love embraces all our brokenness.
-David Shumaker
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