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Luke 18:1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

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Jesus gave us stories with truths tucked inside, oddly familiar once-upon-a-time creations that shed light on real life. Parables help us think when moral dilemmas and crises strike. We wonder what’s worth doing and how to respond. If Jesus gave up when life got hard and hateful, what parables would we hear?

Choose to persevere in faith, even though it’s hard. It’s harder without Jesus.

*Maria Wickwire says “Anillos” was originally her award-winning ceramic sculpture installed in a pedestrian mall in Lake Oswego, Oregon. After Anillos was vandalized and toppled off her pedestal, it took Maria three years to inspect the ceramic shards. “Had any other sculpture been destroyed, I would have let it go,” Maria recalled. “The trauma seemed part of her story. Her new chapter began.” Anillos was reborn as a bronze sculpture with 18K gold embedded in the cracks left by the original statue’s destruction. “The gold in her scars emulates Japanese kintsugi, mending broken things with gold. The textured rings represent how Life’s experiences are written into the cells of our bodies.” Discover more about Anillos and her story here: https://mariawickwire.com/anillos-reborn/

Artist and dear friend Maria Wickwire creates ceramic sculptures that reveal feminine archetypes, hoping to encourage healing and forgiveness in our sometimes splintering world. Find her work at www.Mariawickwire.com

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