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Arcimboldo, Giuseppe, (oil on panel) (1527-93)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s always good to consider the the things we take for granted.\u00a0 The idea that naturescapes are something to be fawned over is relatively new.\u00a0 I think we owe many of our sentiments about nature to the Romantics.\u00a0 I used to wonder why pre moderns pained still lives so often.\u00a0 Who cares about bowls of fruit? But that is because we take our fruit for granted.\u00a0 For most of human history nature was not some romantic setting for teenagers making out under a giant elm tree, it was the enemy.\u00a0 Nature was out to kill you.\u00a0 Insects could wipe out your crops in a single swarm, leaving you without food for the year.\u00a0 Weather could destroy your shelter, leaving you out in the cold for winter.\u00a0 Animals could kill your husband as he went to market.\u00a0 And don\u2019t even get started on the forest.\u00a0 Any number of evils await there, as you can see from Shakespeare\u2019s writing.\u00a0 The forest is always bad, entering in, probably means never being heard from again. And this was the ChristianEurope view.\u00a0 To the pagans, ruled by demons, nature was as capricious as a farie, you never knew what was going on but at the root was a totale fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then as the industrial revolution began to ramp up, the forests were cut down.\u00a0 And poets and painters began to mourn the loss of the good old days and they created a romantic affinity for this nature in their works.\u00a0 They pined for a day, which never existed when man and nature existed in perfect harmony and where the noble savage danced around in the forest like a disney musical number.\u00a0 Unfortunately this never happened.\u00a0 And the savages, were savage.<\/p>\n

\"Peasant<\/a>

Peasant Family at Meal time, c.1665 (oil on canvas) by Steen, Jan<\/p><\/div>\n

In stark contrast you have the painting of a bowl of fruit.\u00a0 Men used to love, honor and cherish fruit.\u00a0 Fruit was life.\u00a0 A good harvest meant comfort for you and your family.\u00a0 It represented the reward of hard work,\u00a0 well done good and faithful servant.\u00a0 It was not only the culmination of your year, but the culmination of human endeavor as each generation improved farming techniques.\u00a0 And the same went for children.\u00a0 Step one of the great commission was having lots of children and training them up in the nurture an admonition of the Lord.\u00a0 And so paintings of fruit also included scenes of family and home.\u00a0 Our ideal is impotent singles hiking from their rentals to federal property with their dogs, in between shifts as cogs in the big tech oligarchy .\u00a0 Theirs was a complete world, where a man was king of his property, however small, and his wife a queen giving birth to future generations who could accomplish more than he ever dreamed.\u00a0 They pushed back the curse as far as it was found.\u00a0 We worship ourselves and our comfort and don\u2019t even know where we came from.<\/p>\n

So yes appreciate the sunrise, but really appreciate the sunrise of humanity under Jesus the Christ who turned nature from foe to friend.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t we are likely to return.<\/p>\n

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Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.\u00a0-Isaiah 62:4<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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