I'm a painter, and I'm fascinated by the idea that Jesus is the image of God. For centuries, the church was divided about religious images. Could you paint God? Were you supposed to? If Jesus is God's image, then there's already one true representation.
What strikes me is that Jesus doesn't make God smaller or less mysterious. Looking at Jesus, we see an actual human - tired, hungry, emotional, limited to one place at a time. Yet somehow in that fully human life, God is perfectly shown. Not a diluted version of God, but the real thing.
It's changed how I paint. I'm not trying to capture something abstract or transcendent. I'm trying to show what I see in actual moments - in faces, in light, in the ordinary world. Because if God showed up as a carpenter, then maybe the divine is right here in the material world, not somewhere else entirely.
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