Community Arts Night: “Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue”

Join us for an evening of original artwork featuring local Christian artists from the Eliot Society’s Artists Fellowship. This event will feature a curated program of mixed-medium original work, followed by a reception.

Theme: Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue

The birth, death and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

–J.R.R. Tolkien

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

–Romans 8:18

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

–T. S. Eliot, “East Coker”

Lent highlights for us a paradox at the heart of the life of faith. In Lent, we remind ourselves of the brokenness of our own hearts, the sorrow of the world, and the barrenness of life apart from Christ. And yet we hold this sorrow in tension with our hope of Resurrection joy. This paradox between suffering and hope is ripe for exploration in art.