“Imagine a Portrait Gallery approached you and wanted to capture your image for posterity. How would you like to be portrayed? What picture of yourself would you like others to see? And do you think that picture ties up at all with the pictures others have of you? How would you be in this portrait? Where would you be? What emotion, position, look would just capture you? What would you like the picture to say about you – “I’m essentially happy”, “I’m rather serious”, “I used to be thin”, “I love my garden”? What would you want to hide – “I’ve got big ears”, “I’m lonely”, “I’m ill”? Would the portrait be incomplete if someone wasn’t with you in the portrait? Or would it look at how you are without them?“

Lectionary Readings:
Isaiah 6:1-8
Romans 8:12-17
John 3:1-17
Psalm 29