A Contrast

From our bedroom 

this is the scene that provides a benediction to our day.

On this evening the large snowflakes 

soon covered street and churchyard.

On the other hand....

this somber stain glass illustration in

the St. Sebastian Chapel in Baden, Switzerland, 

serves to remind worshippers of how transitory this life is.

But....

in the Evangelical Reform Church in Bulach

this illustration of Bethlehem lifts one's spirits as

do the simple, but powerful, ornamented windows

featuring symbols of wheat, wine, fish, and crown.

"Theology often comes across as dull and abstract,

but the history of God has been passionate and intense."

Karen Armstrong, A History of God