Unseasonal I know, but this week I have been looking at representations of the birth of Christ and thinking about a Christmas offering. I want to publicise this beautiful icon by Ukrainian artist Lyuba Yatskiv which I chanced on while rattling round the web: I am so completely taken with it that it is pinned up on my workboard to meditate on (and perhaps a bit in the hope that some of its beauty will somehow leak out ....) |
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