(Image from http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/images/thumbnail1.php/8a9674e9.jpg)
"On All Saints' Day, it is not just the saints of the church that we should remember in our prayers, but all the foolish ones and wise ones, the shy ones and overbearing ones, the broken ones and whole ones, the despots and and tosspots and crackpots of our lives who, one way or another, have been our particular fathers and mothers and saints, and whom we loved without ever knowing we loved them and by whom we were helped to whatever little we may have, or ever hope to have, of some kind of seedy sainthood of our own." (Frederick Buechner)
The image above, by the way, is by the Ugandan artist Eria 'sane' Nsubuga. I'm just discovering his work. He graciously gave me permission to use this piece on my blog. Here is what he writes about the above piece, titled "Colud of Witnesses iii":
"This picture is based on Hebrews 12:1 "Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders..." Uganda is a very poor country whose people are spiritually tuned to God, because unlike the West where wealthy people long declared their independence of God, we need a spiritual tonic for our very mortal existence. After all, in the words of Henry Mujunga, Africans live their lives 'in the valley of the shadow of death'."
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