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DESCRIPTION:Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep\n \nBlessed is he who comes 
 in the name of the Lord! \nBlessed is the\nkingdom of our father David tha
 t is coming! \nMark 11.9\, 10\n \nO Come. Let Us Worship.\n \nScriptures
 : \nEzekiel 34.11–16\, 20–24 \nPsalm 100\nEphesians 1.15–23 \nMatth
 ew 25.31–46\n\n \n\n\nDigital Worship @ Christ Church Cathedral Victor
 ia\n10:50 a.m. HERE.\n\n\nThe Lord is my shepherd\; \nI shall not be in w
 ant.\n \n \nLandscape with Shepherd and Sheep\nThis quiet painting by th
 e Dutch 19th century artist\, Anton Mauve\, provides an opportunity for re
 flection upon the promises of Psalm 23 and of the author of the Gospel of 
 Mark -- that God's love provides caretaking comfort.\nBorn in Zandaam in 1
 838\, Mauve was a popular artist of The Hague School\, an informal group o
 f Dutch artists who worked mainly in the city of The Hague\, Netherlands\,
  between 1860 and 1900.[1] Mauve was a leading member of this group and\, 
 with skillful technique and style\, is said also to have been an influenti
 al figure in the early career of Vincent Van Gogh\, Mauve’s cousin-in-la
 w.[2] As illustrated through this characteristic piece\, Hague School pain
 tings were most often landscapes\, “beach scenes\, views of everyday lif
 e\, and church interiors.”[3] \nAs the scholar Richard Muther makes exp
 licit\, artists like Mauve “paint things as vehicles interpreting person
 al and emotional moods…nature’s reality is to them only a means\, not 
 an end in itself.”[4] The silvery and gray tones of Mauve’s painting b
 eckon the viewer to move deeper into of one’s soul. Muther goes on to st
 ate that Mauve captures the “tenderness\, melancholy poetry of nature.
 ”[5]\nConsidering this painting along with the lectionary texts for this
  week expands our awareness of God’s presence in the world\, building up
 on the relationship between this world and the ‘other’ worldly. Echoin
 g the line “the Lord is my shepherd\, I shall not want\,” one may real
 ize not only the visual but also the soulful embodiment of the underlying 
 tone of Psalm 23. We may ask ourselves\, "What are the lived implications 
 of walking through the darkest valley and yet fearing no evil?"\n\nMauve\,
  Anton\, 1838-1888. \nfr: Art in the Christian Tradition\, a project of th
 e Vanderbilt University Divinity Library\, Nashville\, TN. 
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