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"Germany’s Symphony of Trials in the Garden of Eternity", acrylic on gesso board, Bishop Maxim, 2025
A dense garden paradise surrounding a castle. No signs of human life. But a large hovering figure with five fingers looking down on the castle. I'm not sure it is a beneficent figure. No castles of monological self-protection are immune to the forces that try human beings and ultimately serve God’s plan to test us and reveal the futility of our self-protection in order to prepare us for eternal life, depending on our responses. Lord, save me from the castles I build so that I seek only the protection of your Holy Cross! — Stephen Muse