{"id":1164,"date":"2010-04-13T08:46:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2010-04-13T08:46:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:46:44","slug":"hopeful-thought-for-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/04\/13\/hopeful-thought-for-the-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our &#8220;thought&#8221; for the day is an image. This is a picture I took of a 17th Century Spanish painting that hangs in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> in New York.  BTW, walking through the Met&#8217;s Medieval and Renaissance Art collections can be a neat spiritual exercise because so much of the art from those periods focuses on Christ.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate this image because of its realism and power.  It is painted on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/works_of_art\/collection_database\/all\/the_crucifixion_workshop_of_francisco_de_zurbaran\/objectview.aspx?page=8&amp;sort=0&amp;sortdir=asc&amp;keyword=crucifixion&amp;fp=6&amp;dd1=0&amp;dd2=0&amp;vw=1&amp;collID=0&amp;OID=110002425&amp;vT=1\">large wooden panel<\/a> and hangs high overhead in the museum.  To me, it conveys the brutal reality of Christ&#8217;s passion, as well as the universality of Christ&#8217;s suffering.  It&#8217;s size and scope, with the sagging, distended posture of Christ&#8217;s body, communicate to me that the weight of all the suffering in the world is falling onto the broken body of Jesus.  At first blush, this seems a strange jumping-off point for &#8220;hopeful&#8221; thoughts.  Take a moment, however, to allow this image to sink in as you return to our reading for the week in Colossians 2.  How does the <em>physicality<\/em> of the cross communicate hope to you in the midst of your own suffering?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Crucifixion\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3299\/3492605770_5fd09b30a7.jpg?resize=334%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our &#8220;thought&#8221; for the day is an image. This is a picture I took of a 17th Century Spanish painting that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. BTW, walking through the Met&#8217;s Medieval and Renaissance Art collections can be a neat spiritual exercise because so much of the art from those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hopeful-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-iM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}