TASTE and SEE that the Lord is good.

"The Word became Flesh and dwelt amongst us." (John 1:14)

Betty Smackman ponders the link between words and images, the image as truth or protraying one side of truth, interpreted by the viewer and changed. The image as portraying the symbolic and how this impacts in religious iconography.


"Sometimes our vebal expression will not communicate and we must reach out with a touch or a kiss to get the point across. The problem is that even when we make a silent physical gesture we are often asked to explain ourselves in words, and the the words just dont work in the same way. God is merciful. He doesn't require that we always talk to him. He asks at times only that we 'taste and see' that he is good (Psalm 34:8). He wants to know that our desire is for him, and that our expereince of him is more lasting that the words we say about him or even to him."
(A profound weaknes-Christians and Kitsch)

'Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation - if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.'
(1 Peter 2:1-3)