The Disproportionate Cross

Pentecost 21. Dr Mary Caygill, Principal of Trinity Methodist Theological College uses Job, the story of Bartimaeus, and piece of art by a by a friend, Wellington artist and poet, Rhonda Svenson, who lives daily with the effects of varying disabilities to explore the gift of disability. "The cross was made after a deep spiritual reaction at the first New Zealand Spirituality and Disability Confererence, “Through the Whirlwind” – held in Wellington , May 2003. A hugely significant gathering of people from Australia and New Zealand many of whom live with effects of varying physical and mental impairments who gathered together in order to express for themselves their own theological and spiritual expressions of faith in community." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/?sid=75&id=666 St Matthew-in-the-City 29 October 2006