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One thought fills immensity: peace on earth
Reflection accompanying image “peace on earth”
William Blake's sublime line 'One thought fills immensity' hangs metal-sculpted in the air and heralds a new awareness as we ponder what that thought might be. Part of Jaume Plensa's work 'Silhouettes (Blake – Canetti – Valente)', it draws our gaze upwards and holds our attention.
Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace (Luke 2:14)
Well away from the closed-off limelight, out under the spacious infinity of starlight and shivering at the margins of society's cold indifference, a group of men are terrified as God's glory does just this. With upward gaze and rapt attention they become present to an experience of God which deconstructs their life-setting, reframes their world-view and self-understanding, and which voices the longing which unites heaven and earth...
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