Jon Guerra

November 13, 2015

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It's Almost Christmas - Jon and Valerie Guerra - OUT TODAY

Jon Guerra

November 13, 2015

News

OUT TODAY! Merry Christmas!
Available everywhere online where you get music!
‪#‎itsalmostchristmas‬

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Twitter

RT @iamherbertpoems: Though my sins against me cried, Thou didst clear me; And alone, when they replied, Thou didst hear me. PRAISE II
about 4 months ago

Instagram

Ciao! Love travel but eager to get home. Music, social work, study, and refugees...grateful for our life and community in Chicago. See you soon, 90% humidity 😃

As much as I love the ancient beauty of Rome, I’m also saddened. Its first religious impulse wanted to make much of Christ, the suffering servant who taught his disciples self-forgetfulness in favor of a deeper discovery, meekness and poverty of spirit as a better way than violence and gaudiness. What’s left of that impulse are gaudy displays of wealth and power. Treasures of history and art, for sure. But the relics of the Holy Roman Empire feel more imperialistic and nationalist than holy. And what saddens me is how it reflects the tendency of my own heart to prefer the gilded Christ over the grotesque Christ. I want the flashy not the forsaken. We do so much “in the name of Christ” that is nothing more than a monument to ourselves. The apparatus of glory is different, but the impulse is the same. The trouble is the gilded Christ doesn’t teach us to suffer well, to love long, to hide away our glory. The gilded Christ teaches us to always take the seat of honor, to fight for what’s ours, to hate those who speak ill of us. The forsaken Christ teaches us to die, and to love even unto death. I so badly don’t want my heart to be hijacked by gold and glory. It’s pretty but it’s so empty.

Au revoir, Cannes! Now off to Assisi and Rome to digest what just happened. Also, in about one week my feed will go back to being my books, my kitchen and nature all about 1 month apart so... #year9pilgrimage #cannes .
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📷: @mazagranphoto

TWITTER

RT @iamherbertpoems: Though my sins against me cried, Thou didst clear me; And alone, when they replied, Thou didst hear me. PRAISE II
about 4 months ago

INSTAGRAM

Ciao! Love travel but eager to get home. Music, social work, study, and refugees...grateful for our life and community in Chicago. See you soon, 90% humidity 😃

As much as I love the ancient beauty of Rome, I’m also saddened. Its first religious impulse wanted to make much of Christ, the suffering servant who taught his disciples self-forgetfulness in favor of a deeper discovery, meekness and poverty of spirit as a better way than violence and gaudiness. What’s left of that impulse are gaudy displays of wealth and power. Treasures of history and art, for sure. But the relics of the Holy Roman Empire feel more imperialistic and nationalist than holy. And what saddens me is how it reflects the tendency of my own heart to prefer the gilded Christ over the grotesque Christ. I want the flashy not the forsaken. We do so much “in the name of Christ” that is nothing more than a monument to ourselves. The apparatus of glory is different, but the impulse is the same. The trouble is the gilded Christ doesn’t teach us to suffer well, to love long, to hide away our glory. The gilded Christ teaches us to always take the seat of honor, to fight for what’s ours, to hate those who speak ill of us. The forsaken Christ teaches us to die, and to love even unto death. I so badly don’t want my heart to be hijacked by gold and glory. It’s pretty but it’s so empty.

Au revoir, Cannes! Now off to Assisi and Rome to digest what just happened. Also, in about one week my feed will go back to being my books, my kitchen and nature all about 1 month apart so... #year9pilgrimage #cannes .
.
📷: @mazagranphoto