hmmm, there seems to be a deeper magic here...this sooo reminds me of miroslave volf and tutut and forgiveness. in order to forgive, you have to take off the masks and confront the evil in full to move past into forgiveness.

and now the goodness of God (for us to remove our glittering images and be present to one another and walk into healing through suffering together) is foolishness to the world (why would you show your weakness? people will take advantage of it)...and the beat goes on...
steven hamilton | Homepage | 04.04.08 - 1:29 pm | #

Bless you Ange - we miss you too! I pray God shepherds you closely.
Pellucid | Homepage | 03.04.08 - 3:46 pm | #

i'm glad i read this today tom, thanks for sharing. i thought this last paragraph of what he wrote in his article was so true, it was hard to hear...

"What I was used to," says Schels, who has taken hundreds of portraits during his career, "was people who smiled for the camera. It's usually an automatic response. But these people never smiled. They were incredibly serious; and more than that, they weren't pretending anything any more. People are almost always pretending something, but these people had lost that need. I felt it enabled me as a photographer to get as close as it's possible to get to the core of a person; when you're facing the end, everything that's not real is stripped away. You're the most real you'll ever be, more real than you've ever been before".

asking ourselves what we are afraid of (in the pretending) and facing those fears is something worth trying to learn.

really missing last year at the mo you know. take care
andrea | 03.04.08 - 2:33 pm | #