Be still and know that I am

I came across the description of Rembrant's painting in a book by Stephen Arteburg and is intrigued to see how it is like. So I searched and came upon Rembrant: The Return of the Prodigal Son.

The second time I ran into Rembrant's works, I was in a hurry to checkout a book I grabbed off at the counter. While meandering through the aisles at lightning speed, I hit straight on a shelf of Rembrant Van Rijin's books. Well, not by chance.

In the end, I left the library with an additional book in hand. That which describe this melancholy artist's life surrounding true purpose arts. The great master of all artists. Someone who is so indulged into self portraits, who has the intricate eye that see beyond an object to its depth. The kind of looking that contemplates, beholds and reflects. He demonstrated it all through his paintings.

One of the excerpts about The Prodigal Son I read:
"The Prodigal Son was a subject that Rembrandt would return to over and over, in etchings, drawings and paintings. Of all the themes of forgiveness he would weave into his work, none is more central, none more layered, than this one. In the last year of his life, Rembrandt painted and perhaps did not finish, The Return of Prodigal Son, now in the Hermitage Muesum in St. Petersburg. It is suggests that it may be the greatest picture ever painted."

Perhaps, the following can describe the feelings behind it:

You accept unfailingly, who I am
How wonderful You are
In loneliness, in isolation, in brokenness
I connect
Like the Prodigal Son I return
To your embrace & total acceptance
Like the Father in cloak of deep red
The color of love
I went looking everywhere
For home, for fulfillment and could not found
I make the journey searching, worn and blistered
Finally I return
In your embrace, I kneel and buries my head
The same humility, the same mercy and grace and touch
You extend your hands to me
And said
Be still and know that I AM

Evan C.

Exodus 3: 14 God said to Moses, "I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'