This statue stands outside the modern art museum in Novi Sad. It's big, it's rather grey, and it's full of holes. There appears to be no explanation for this piece, but that seems to be the way of the artist. My Mother in Law, the lovely Vera, put her head up to a hole and peered through with childlike instinct.
There are holes all around us and we have 2 choices, we can either pretend they aren't there, that the surface, the world, the theory or the fight is solid, watertight... Or we can acknowledge the hole, put our eyes right up to it, and peer through. I feel removed from many an argument here, I seem to sit back and watch the mud being thrown, the tears wet the soft skin and the righteous indignation flare like a beacon. More and more I'm starting to see the holes. Now I don't mean this in the way that I am nitpicking, nor do I mean to belittle either side of any argument, but the view from the holes, it's just spectacular. When you look through the holes you don't change sides, you don't move camps, or leave your spot, you just peer a little closer. When you gaze through that hole you see their side, not the whole picture, but just a little window, just a little grasp of understanding. You recognise it's not as dark over there as you thought, and the nearer you push your eye to that hole the more you are aware of both the barrier and the other side. you see the tears in the fabric, the way the strands have untravelled and warped, you see the glory of the other side, threason for the barrier itself. I imagine God veiling his face from the world, his side of the divide is full of glory, splendour, beauty that we could not comprehend to see, and yet he scratches a small hole, a hole just big enough for him to peer down at us, to hear the cry from our relative squalor, and as he does so he opens to us a view of a world beyond our imagination.
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The other siteWho is GfeefGfeef is the name that my writings have been under for some years. As far as I know it's unique to me. Originally from the UK, I now live in Serbia but continue to have a passion for childrens and youth ministry. Archives
October 2014
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