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FRIDA
SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
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FRIDA
SPIRITUAL
CONNECTIONS
This page was created on November 30, 2002
This page was last updated on
November 30, 2002
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SPIRITUAL
CONNECTIONS
ON PAIN
 Frida
Kahlo was an amazing artist who was able to convey her passion
and her pain through her paintings. Sadly, the passion and pain
are absent in the film. We see the origin of the pain (a bus accident
that nearly killed her and kept her in constant pain thereafter),
but we rarely even see a grimace on her face. We see the objects
of her passion, Diego Rivera, Communism, Leon Trotsky, but we
don't feel the passion that is there. And since a good part of
the film is the love story between her and Rivera, a lack of passion
is a serious flaw.
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My
soul is a dark ploughed field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.
--SARA TEASDALE (1884–1933)
Pain
is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through
pain and suffering has always seemed more real and holy than any
other.
--ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM (1811–1833)
God
whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but
shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
--C. S. LEWIS (1898–1963)
Although
today he prunes my twigs with pain,
Yet doth his blood nourish and warm my root:
Tomorrow I shall put forth buds again
And clothe myself with fruit.
--CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI (1830–1894)
For
philosophers, pain is a problem of metaphysics; for stoics, it
is an exercise; for mystics, it is an ecstasy; for the religious,
a travail meekly to be borne; for clinicians a symptom to be understood
and an ill to be relieved.
--CHARLES F. W. ILLINGWORTH (1899–1991)
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BIBLICAL
CONNECTIONS
ON PAIN
Pain
and passion are often the building blocks of art. Consider Vincent
Van Gogh or Jackson Pollock. Such things can also be the building
blocks of faith and hope (as well as doubt and despair). Seeing
such things in people's lives and their responses can help us deal
with our own kinds of pain and passions.
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God
uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his
chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on
Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean.
And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while
our bodies waste away. To live with your “thorn” uncomplainingly—that
is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even
though every day you feel weak—is true sanctification. It is
true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace. The
healing of your sinful person thus goes forward, even though the healing
of your mortal body does not.
--J. I. PACKER
If
I ever wonder about the appropriate “spiritual” response
to pain and suffering, I can note how Jesus responded to his own:
with fear and trembling, with loud cries and tears.
--PHILIP YANCEY
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Frida
--Review -click here
Frida
-- About Frida Kahlo -click
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Frida
-- About this Film -click
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Frida
-- About the Cast and Crew -click
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Frida
--Spiritual Connections -click here
Frida
--Forum -click
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