It is also helpful for children to
see their father express his feelings.
Not exact matches
Jesus was here to clear that up, the
express image telling us that if we have
seen Him we have
seen the
Father.
I can more clearly
see the heart of God towards his children as
expressed in the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as He invites my own soul and the lives of those around me into the fullness and abundance of life in Christ.
If in Jesus Christ we encounter one who is divine in the fullest sense — if he is the Son or Word of God who is of one and the same essence as God the
Father — if he is «God the Son» — then can we also
see in him one who is truly human, of one and the same essence as ourselves in respect of his manhood, as the council of Chalcedon
expressed it?
Luther's distinction between law and gospel seems to
express this view, as does the vision of the twentieth «century Polish mystic St. Faustina Kowalska, which portrays a wrathful God the
Father holding back from the application of terrible justice only because He
sees man through the wounds of His Son.
Several times already we have quoted Wesley's fine words about «pure, unbounded love»: never was there a more apt description of the reality of God, although in Wesley's hymn the words are in fact applied to Christ — and appropriately, since in Christ (if Christian faith is right) the «pure, unbounded love» that is
seen humanly
expressed is the manifestation, reflection, and participation in human terms of the divine Lover whom Jesus called «my
Father in heaven.»
Colossians 1:16 says, ``... by him were all things created...» Consider Hebrews 1:1 - 3: «God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the
express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;» You
see, by Jesus Christ the worlds were made, and by Jesus Christ all things are upheld.
If Jesus reveals the true nature of God, we don't
see him
expressing an unquenchable wrath towards those he forgives with a word, it would seem odd then to paint God the
father differently.
Or if she
sees you or her
father cooking dinner, you can
express the notion that this is your responsibility because you're the adult.
There are numerous hints throughout that she is of legal age, not least of which are her fully developed naked body and the fact that her
father and brother
express surprise that she's not «
seeing anybody yet» and that she's still a virgin.
Although an artist as a hobby,
expressing himself is something that doesn't come easy for Neal with a loving
father that tries to paint his son in his own image, an image that Neal doesn't
see for himself.
Montag's inner turmoil is
expressed through flashbacks to
seeing his
father arrested as a child, Beatty spouts Bradbury's most verbose and opaque lines of dialogue about knowledge, and Clarisse is just an escort for Montag's heroic journey.
But Affleck's stoic Neil can be
seen as an echo of Brad Pitt's»50s
father from Malick's «The Tree of Life»: a strong, quiet man whose deep feelings are smothered by a masculine inability to
express them.
Dale's fourth solo show in London will
see the artist unleash some of his personal demons, which are
expressed in the metaphoric form of his violent
father and the troubled upbringing Dale and his family experienced throughout his childhood.
I have generally
seen this pattern with males as the alienating parent (perhaps because of the higher prevalence for males to display narcissistic and antisocial personality traits), with mothers then being the recipient of the child's (teenager's) excessive violence and threats (as a vehicle in
expressing the
father's narcissistic and antisocial violence toward the mother).