Luther

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This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished but it is going on, this is not the end but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified.

Martin Luther

Design by Michael Podesta

7 x 11

This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished but it is going on, this is not the end but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified.

Martin Luther

Design by Michael Podesta

7 x 11

Behind The Art

This text is from the Greater Catechism. I have known people to somewhat minimize this piece, saying, after a quick reading, “Oh yeah, Process Theology”. 

Luther’s words make me think of what Jesus says in the Gospel of John, “I am the Way”. The thought of a Savior who is also the Way to the Savior must be very appealing to readers of Eastern mystical poetry. 

If, in the course of our conversation, I learn that the person visiting my booth at a craft show is a counselor or therapist, I almost invariably share this text, and the response is almost invariably enthusiastic. 

It’s one of my earlier pieces. I’ve been reading it for years and its practical value is that it encourages me, simply, to be patient with my life.

—Michael