We are currently in the season of Advent. This is the season we wait expectantly for the transformed world. And this is the season that we hope... for many different things and desires of our hearts to be fulfilled...
[However,] if we do not imagine for ourselves how we may contribute to
the building up of the peaceable kingdom and then persistently act upon our
hopeful imagination in that kingdom, then we do not have hope at all. True hope cannot be experienced vicariously
or attained through a vision… Unless we generate within ourselves the Isaiah
11 hope for a radically transformed world, then we will be chronically
disappointed in the world as it is and further delay the realization of the
future reality of Isaiah’s harmony by not participating with each other in ways
that encourage a spirit of wisdom and understanding…
--Chris Walters, Hope for Transformation
Image source: John
August Swanson, Peaceable Kingdom, whose style is “influenced by the imagery of Islamic and medieval miniatures, Russian
iconography, the color of Latin American folk art, and the tradition of Mexican
muralists.”
Quotation source: To read the whole of Chris Walters reflection on Isaiah 11, including a variety of artistic representations of this beautiful passage, click here.
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