Friday, January 03, 2014

Myrrh

Myrrh is a precious gift, a gift fit for a king (Ps. 45:8; Song 3:6), but it's also associated with death (Mk. 15:23; Jn. 19:39). I've been trying to think of an equivalent. It's not quite like getting a bomb or a death-warrent for your birtday. Maybe Damien Hirst's sculpture, For the love of God, captures something of the sense of it. Maybe an ornimental casket for ashes might do the same.

Hirst-Love-Of-God.jpg

1 comment:

Thomas Renz said...

O yes, I want to be reading THIS. Thanks (for the heads up earlier) and thanks (for this).