Wednesday, May 13, 2009

"The Final Interview"

Acrylic on canvas board 34x60.

I painted this to be a daily reminder that one day I will have my turn to sit in one of those chairs and answer the question from my Heavenly Father "So, Karen, how do you think you did?"

"Concilio is a seating together in a council. Our word council comes from that. Reconciliation is to be called back to the council and sit down again. You are called to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - to return. ...These words from Latin that begin with re always imply going back to a former state, returning home again. And, of course, the Hebrew word for that is teshûvāh and then yeshîvāh. The teshûvāh is return home; the yeshîvāh is sit down when you return home."
~Hugh Nibley Teachings of the Book of Mormon Semester 1 Transcripts of lectures presented to an honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University 1988 – 1990 p.391, 393

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