Week 13-Summary-2

How does our body compare with soul? All comparisons are odious. What life touches transforms body as Jesus was transfigured in front of his disciples. (St.Matt.17: 1-13) All that they could understand of it was so little whereas Jesus knew of the path that lay ahead. The body merely makes you adequate for certain functions here and now, while soul maps out hereafter as well. Soul takes over the burden of proof that the body cannot supply. Jesus knew his way ahead where Golgotha was merely another name to the glory of being elevated to the right hand of his Father.
Let us consider the life of an artist like Vincent van Gogh. What gave him wherewithal or the inner resources to continue as a painter while the world jeered and his peers ridiculed at his works? Shame and honor of this world in the final analysis do not matter since soul is outside every circumstance that a body is privy to. The artist was lonely; he was poor and a sponge and a madman to boot. But his soul was none of these.
The body allows an artist to squeeze the paints or mix them but the colors that make up the canvas are all from the soul. Similarly shall Shakespeare stage his plays for the rowdy, and dandies of his times. But poetry of his soul shall make his lines, even when taken out of context, sing and continue to set us on fire.
benny