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Renoir Landscapes

My wife and I visisted the exhibition of Renoir Landscapes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. One garden painting seemed to hold an endless variety of color. A comment caught my eye that “the reigning principle of nature was irregularity.” I enjoy the paradox of principle and irregularity. It reminds me of God’s promise that is a possible impossibility! Life in the Spirit is full of surprise, joy, and possibility (even the colorful possibility of what is irregular and beyond our ken). – Cliff