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“A child can embrace the simplest board-book basics of the Gospel and offer stick-figure prayers, but living the Christian life is an art we spend our entire lives learning. And suffering is one of our teachers.” (Ramsey 93-94)

Just finished the chapter on Rembrandt. On his last painting featuring Simeon and the young Jesus, “When I look at the old painter’s reimagining of the scene, to my eye he didn’t seem to want to show us the spectacle of the temple when Simeon held Jesus or what he can do with it as a painter. After a life filled with suffering and sorrow, he just seems to want to hold Jesus.”