He Ran to Meet Him
Luke 15:20Hallway
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The door is open and nobody has to say so
From across the hall it is mostly field: a road going up through worked strips of land, thin hedges, a house with its gate open at the top of the rise. Then you find the pair on the road, closer to each other than to anywhere else, and the whole map turns toward them.
Nothing in it hurries you. You pass it with an armful of coats and it holds the same thought it held yesterday, which is that someone is already on the way out to meet the one coming back.
One friend sees only the road and says she is going through a wilderness season herself. Another sees two figures about to meet, a long way from home. Someone else notices the household still at work in the yard while one person runs out through the gate. Nobody agrees, and the hall is better for it.
You can see the whole road from here
I keep coming back to the gap. From up here you can see the whole road at once, how it leaves the low ground, bends once past the hedges, and climbs the last stretch to the gate. Two marks on it, small as seeds. One is walking. One is running. There is still field between them, and that little bit of field is the part I cannot look away from.
Everything else in the picture stays busy. The yard, the strips of worked ground, the door standing open at the top. What I hope, for whoever lives with this map, is that the distance stops looking long. That the eye goes to the gate first, and the running, and finds the road shorter than it was yesterday.
One hangs it in her own hall, one wraps it
One of them is praying for a grown child. She keeps saying the same thing to friends and to herself: he did not stand at the door asking where he had been, he ran toward him. She puts it where the family comes in, and it holds that sentence for her so she does not have to keep saying it out loud.
The other is looking for something to bring to a first house, or to another mother in the same long season. Her friend has already told her she has everything she needs and no space for more, so she brings one thing meant for one wall.
It hangs on the entry wall above the shoe bench, at eye level from the doormat, the first of the two hall pieces read as one journey.
What comes to the door
- 170 gsm matte uncoated paper The print only option, printed to its edges, off shine under a hallway light.
- 12 mm black wood frame Flat square profile, 22 mm deep, matte finish, plexiglass front, no mat, the print running to the inner edge on 170 gsm coated silk.
- Three sizes 12x16 in / 30x40 cm, 18x24 in / 45x60 cm, 24x32 in / 60x80 cm. The middle one is the usual choice above a bench.
What people ask about this one
1.What verse is good for an entryway wall?
2.What does the father running in the prodigal son story mean?
3.What should I hang above a hallway bench instead of a mirror?
4.Is this a good gift for a family moving into their first house?
The road is already halfway up the hill
Three sizes, framed or as a single sheet, for the wall the whole family passes on the way in.
