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March 09, 2006
forgetful
Yesterday the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum and it was there in the long gallery that I remember something that I am not sure I knew. In the long gallery is a locket filled with Robert Browning hair and a woodenhead with the nose missing. I looked at the head and then walked away thinking the nose on that wooden Christ head figurine has fallen off. Shortly after that came the thought ‘I wonder how long before the actual nose of Christ fell off’. Then in a moment I remembered that Christ was not dead. It is strange when you are walking though a museum seeing all of the different representations of somebody that you know and somebody that is not dead.
A few times I have been in a museums and seen a relative. It is a fun moment in which you feel connected to something bigger then your suburb. Seeing some distant relation on the wall you don’t consider much more then ‘Hey, I know that nose’. Seeing that little woodenhead the reality of a temporal and eternal Christ who is fully man and fully God became clearer. Before Communion I will say that Christ is risen but what I professed to be true was good to remember in an everyday thoughtless way.
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Sounds like you and Tuggy had similar realizations.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at March 9, 2006 04:39 PM
Postscript:
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Posted by: funke at March 10, 2006 10:21 AM
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