Salt of the Earth
A photo study and contemplation, documenting the holiness of life.
“For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
You are the Salt of the Earth. With these words, Jesus tells us not merely some identity for us to grab onto or dress ourselves in, but the truest essence and deepest truth of who we are made to be as persons; Salt and Light for the world. He is telling us who we truly are. If anything, rather than an external identity and attire that we must put on, it is the truest identity buried within us underneath the “loincloths and leaves” and masks that we hide under, often under the pretention of self-protection, self-knowledge, self-creation, and supposed self-love, which Thomas Merton says is precisely the definition of despair—the absolute extreme of self-love—and at that point, can we truly call it love?
Vignette 001
A contemplative vignette gazing upon ordinary people in ordinary life.
