Christ in the Wilderness Mary and shearing sheep

and shearing sheep

which are running down behind me and I cannot see them

Even those who may be considered outsiders or not "Worthy"

I think this symbol of Mary nursing Jesus is one of the most beautiful forgotten images of the Advent season and of the incarnation

Christ in the Wilderness Mary and shearing sheepArchival Giclee Signed Print 8x10in., 11x14in. As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the