ART IMITATES LIFE: From The Jaws of Death Comes Life.

Rebecca Prescott Never Studied Art.

She Nearly Died.

Now, She's An Artist.

"It's the rebirth.

From 

the jaws of death 

comes 

LIFE."

"Death begets life 

as 

life begets death."

***

I was feeling so down that evening I remembered this photo.  Had completely forgotten about it all those years it hung there since first moving into this house in 1995.

The day she sold me this art piece, small art festival courtyard of St. Augustine decided to check out from nearby Jacksonville, Florida where I was living at the time, she wanted to talk about this photo taped to the back of it I'd never bothered to remove.

She said she saw an angel; was trying to get me to see it also.

  

"Anyway.  

That's what I see in the photo," 

she said giving up once realizing I wasn't interested in the photo.

Now wishing I had been more considerate of her feelings.

Forcing myself to find something in that photo, 

found what I thought looked like 

a 

Betty Boop Rubber Duckie.

Janet Gary, 

wife of nationally known pastoral consultant G. Robert Gary, Sr. Th.D., 

ex-neighbors from across the street,

saw 

a 

dog.

Diane Johnston, 

wife of Dr. Ken Johnson whom I was doing relief work 

as 

a veterinarian around the time of Thanksgiving 2010 all this begins to unfold, 

saw 

a 

fetus.

I find this last one particularly interesting,
because this wife credits her Christian belief/certainty in the existence of a God with a feeling that overcame her during a moment she just knew she was going to be pregnant this time.

And it's my understanding this happened...
in a fertility clinic.

Once saw a movie,
FAITH LIKE POTATOES, 
where a white South African farmer becomes
a born again Christian and says,
"The condition for a miracle is difficulty; 
a great miracle...impossibility."


Well...
"great miracle"
 is
an oxymoron.

Therefore rendering,
"difficulty" 
not
a condition for a miracle if possible!

Same goes
for
"MIRACLE BABY TIM TEBOW!"

Once pointed out to me, the dog and fetus are easy to find.  

Still have not found the angel. 

Also find it interesting we have a photo of a rectangle 

divided

 into 

two triangles similar to the two triangles making up one half 

of 

this art piece

titled

ADAM AND EVE. 

With Adam, as well as a proliferative Eve, within a square making up the other half.

I can't help but sense the math is still there!

In the beginning the Rainbow Snake created the

land, then Wandjina filled the earth with yam plants,

fish, birds and kangaroos.  Then he created man and 

women.  So the story goes...

Wish I could meet this artist again.

Have questions.

***

Jaume Huguet - Consecration of Saint Augustine

ST.  AUGUSTINE

In City of God, Augustine rejected both the immortality of the human race proposed by pagans, and contemporary ideas of ages (such as those of certain Greeks and Egyptians) that differed from the Church's sacred writings. In "The Literal Interpretation of Genesis" Augustine took the view that everything in the universe was created simultaneously by God, and not in seven calendar days like a literal account of Genesis would require. He argued that the six-day structure of creation presented in the book of Genesis represents a logical framework, rather than the passage of time in a physical way — it would bear a spiritual, rather than physical, meaning, which is no less literal. One reason for this interpretation is the passage in Sirach 18:1, creavit omni simul ("he created all things at once"), which Augustine took as proof that the days of Genesis 1 had to be taken non-literally. Augustine also does not envision original sin as originating structural changes in the universe, and even suggests that the bodies of Adam and Eve were already created mortal before the Fall. Apart from his specific views, Augustine recognizes that the interpretation of the creation story is difficult, and remarks that we should be willing to change our mind about it as new information comes up.

Augustine took the view that the Biblical text should not be interpreted as properly literal, but rather as metaphorical, if it contradicts what we know from science and our God-given reason. While each passage of Scripture has a literal sense, this "literal sense" does not always mean that the Scriptures are mere history; at times they are rather an extended metaphor.

Augustine taught that Original sin of Adam and Eve was either an act of foolishness (insipientia) followed by pride and disobedience to God or the opposite: pride came first. The first couple disobeyed God, who had told them not to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2:17). The tree was a symbol of the order of creation. Self-centeredness made Adam and Eve eat of it, thus failing to acknowledge and respect the world as it was created by God, with its hierarchy of beings and values. They would not have fallen into pride and lack of wisdom, if Satan hadn't sown into their senses "the root of evil" (radix Mali). Their nature was wounded by concupiscence or libido, which affected human intelligence and will, as well as affections and desires, including sexual desire.

St. Augustine "vigorously condemned the practice of induced abortion" as a crime, in any stage of pregnancy, although he accepted the distinction between "formed" and "unformed" fetuses mentioned in the Septuagint translation of Exodus 21:22-23, a text that, he observed, did not classify as murder the abortion of an "unformed" fetus, since it could not be said with certainty that it had already received a soul.

His On the Trinity, in which he developed what has become known as the 'psychological analogy' of the Trinity, is also among his masterpieces, and arguably one of the greatest theological works of all time.

Philosopher Bertrand Russell was impressed by Augustine's meditation on the nature of time in the Confessions, comparing it to Kant's subjective theory of time, which has been widely accepted since Kant. Catholic theologians generally subscribe to Augustine's belief that God exists outside of time in the "eternal present"; that time only exists within the created universe because only in space is time discernible through motion and change. His meditations on the nature of time are closely linked to his consideration of the human ability of memory.