Vita Brevis, Ars Longa

Choosing to be undistracted by the candidate debate tonight and the impending presidential election, I am posting, as promised a week ago, the remaining portfolio slides that I submitted to the Alaska State Museum in my (successful) application for a solo exhibit in 2017/2018.

The Conception of Mary the Mother of God

The Risen Jesus and St. Mary Magdalene at the Empty Tomb

St. Justin Martyr with Scenes from His Life

The Holy Face (Icon of Christ-Made-Without-Hands)

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

A Life Together

The Conception of Mary

The Wedding Icon

It's our thirty-third marriage anniversary today.  A life together that began with just the two of us but that has only gotten larger and fuller over the intervening years.  So many days as a couple, as spouses, as husband and wife, filled with countless, ordinary moments and choices and decisions made with passion and joy, hope and uncertainty, (with sadness, conflict and tears along the way, to be sure), that somehow have given us such extraordinary gifts, faith, children, ministry, community, each other.
With Christ at the center, an ever-flowing wellspring of grace that has sustained us along the way.