🎄🎨❤ ☮ #ArtIsAWeapon 🖼 👩🏿🎨 @honeiee www.harmoniarosales.com ______________________ #HowardThurman - #TheWorkOfChristmas: "When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among the people, to make music in the heart." _________________________ Howard Thurman - "DEEP IS THE HUNGER" "There is a strange irony in the usual salutation, 'Merry Christmas,' when most of the people on this planet are thrown back upon themselves for food which they do not possess, for resources that have long since been exhausted, and for vitality which has already run its course. Nevertheless, the inescapable fact remains that Christmas symbolizes hope even at a moment when hope seems utterly fantastic. The raw materials of the Christmas mood are a newborn baby, a family, friendly animals, and labor. An endless process of births is the perpetual answer of life to the fact of death. It says that life keeps coming on, keeps seeking to fulfill itself, keeps affirming the margin of hope in the presence of desolation, pestilence, and despair. It is not on accident that the birth rate seems always to increase during times of war, when the formal processes of man are engaged in the destruction of others. Welling up out of the depths of vast vitality, there is something at work that is more authentic than the formal discursive design of the human mind. As long as this is true ultimately, despair about the human race is groundless." #HowardThurmanWritings #Christmas #Hope #Peace #DeepIsTheHunger #Love #ChristmasSpirit #Mystic #Prophetic #Meditations #BlackBrilliance #Nativity #BlackArt #paintings #Harmonia#BlackArtists #TraScapades #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/B6g-1IZgbri/?igshid=1g04ye6ff1pge
