We also listened to Don McLean's "Starry Starry Night" and watched a couple YouTube tributes to Vincent Van Gogh. One of the videos that moved me the most really captured Van Gogh's art to the song. It is amazing how the internet can enrich our home education some times.
Here are the results....
We will be studying Van Gogh at some point this year as our "Artist on the Wall" for six weeks. I'm looking forward to it. Such beautiful art - such a sad story. I think the Don McLean song really is a beautiful, bittersweet tribute to Van Gogh.
I am almost overwhelmed at the part of his song "...how you suffered for your sanity..." each time I hear it. Suffering is such a hard part of life. So many suffer and never feel heard or understood or get relief. I praise God that He brought us help before I was in complete dispair!
On Sunday we (the ladies in our church gathering) were visiting and as stories were shared it was so easy to ask "Why?" to so much suffering. But the answer may never come on this side of Heaven. I think it may be that we will have a testimony about God's grace and His faithfulness in our own suffering and will be of help to someone who is crying out in their own suffering.
Mr. Van Gogh, Jesus understood your suffering! He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. ~Isaiah 53:3
And for others who are discouraged or suffering:
I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being
~Ephesians 3:16
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