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A Flame in the Desert

By: tinaboesch April 11, 2017March 11, 2019

travel, writingbombing, Christian living, church fathers, church history, Coptic church, Egypt, Palm Sunday, prayer, suffering2 Comments

The way we pray shapes who we become. Our prayers reflect our understanding of God’s work in the past and our hopes about the way God will interact with us in the future. This Egyptian Coptic prayer testifies to the expectation that God walks with believers through the storm, that His presence is a sustaining force and source of joy. And it reflects their desire to become a flame of love.

Victim or Survivor?—Giacometti, ovarian cancer, and a glimpse of glory

By: tinaboesch March 5, 2016March 11, 2019

art, writingcancer, CS Lewis, existentialism, Giacometti, glory, sculpture, suffering5 Comments

When I see Giacometti’s sculptures I don’t see anxiety, I see dignity. I don’t see alienation; I see presence. I don’t see frailty; I see endurance and resolve. I don’t see victims; I see survivors. These works have been “enthrallingly handled.” They have been loved into existence.