The kingdom of God can be explored in all forms of art, as artists in one way or another, are interpreting it, or the lack of it, for us.or the lack of it, for us.

And today we have some wonderful interpreters to join us – Helen and Leslie from Alissa’s meditation class, Anne from Green Gables and her viewing of the residential schools in PEI, Emily Carr, painter and adventurer who gave us perhaps her most famous painting The Indian Church (renamed Church at Yuquot Village by the Art Gallery of Ontario) and Pablo Picasso who brought the world a depiction of war in his painting Guernica after the destruction of the Spanish town for which the painting was named.

Our faith is an experiential faith, a lived-out faith, a practiced faith. And the kingdom of god is brought into being by none other than us. God has already created it, offered it to us, all its principles are in place, all of nature declares its wisdom and offers itself as inspiration. Our job is to open our eyes and see where it exists and then do our part to usher it along.

The kingdom of god, the kingdom of heaven is already, and not yet.