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Nativity Scene of Peace

Nativity Scene of Peace.

...and on earth peace to all people on whom his favour rests
Luke 2,14
Who are these people on whom HIS favour rests? - Or put in other words, who are the people over whom GOD rejoices?

This Nativity Scene provokes the viewer to question, "Do I belong to these people?" Does God rejoice over me? Am I at peace with God? - through the child in the manger, through the man on the cross, who, through HIS death and ressurection, created peace between God and myself?

Jesus, to whom I belong!


Nuremberg, Autumn 2001


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Many thoughts have been engraved into this Nativity Scene:
The erratic blocks and boulders of the walls: pebbles which have been cut and polished during their lifetime in the tirolian river Ache. The two main beams: an old withered branch from a wild rose bush which grew on a cattle field in Chiemgau.
The nativity figures from ANRI: »Florentine Crib« - memories of the solemn joy and piousness of Italian peasants.
The wonderful smell of freshly ploughed Italian earth, still warm from the heat of the day. This earth on which shortly before the fruits of the earth had grown...
Last not least Rembrandt's picture: The adoration of the shepherds

And yet another special experience:
Normally when I lay out the stones for the first outline of a crib scene, they are what stones usually are: dead.
When they have been cut and the first few cemented into place they begin to come alive
With this scene it was different. The walls were half finished and the stones were still dead.
I began to query what was false or what I had done wrong.
And then suddenly the walls came to life.
I asked the stall, »Why did you take so long to come alive?«
And it answered, »Why did you take so long?«

Then I understood, Why did I take so long to come to the Father - to receive life.
Through this experience it became a joyful Nativity Scene. Like a threshing floor during the harvest
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nach_oben
PEACE
 
REMBRANDT -
ADORATION OF THE SHEPERDS
 
MORE PICTURES
 
Nativity Scene of Peace 2
Nativity Scene of Peace 3
Nativity Scene of Peace 4
Nativity Scene of Peace 5

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