Today’s Remembrance Day wrap: Poppies at the Tower http://t.co/Ju8zhUwa6e pic.twitter.com/6rZLJWXKgx
— The Times of London (@thetimes) November 11, 2014
Today’s Remembrance Day wrap: Poppies at the Tower http://t.co/Ju8zhUwa6e pic.twitter.com/6rZLJWXKgx
— The Times of London (@thetimes) November 11, 2014
Just seeing pictures of this exhibit takes my breath away… it’s hard to imagine what being there in person is like.
In addition to this stunning photo in the Times, I found the picture gallery posted by the Telegraph about how the exhibit grew over the past 4 months to be really fascinating and moving…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11197458/How-the-Tower-of-London-poppies-grew-from-a-single-flower-to-a-stunning-sea-of-red-in-visitors-pictures.html
Watching the progression of the exhibit brought home the reality that each one of those 888,246 poppies represents a human life that was sacrificed to defend our peace and freedom.
The title of the exhibit “Blood swept lands and seas of red…” also got me thinking of Chris Tomlin & Matt Redman et al’s new worship song “Love Ran Red.”
http://www.worshiptogether.com/songs/songdetail.aspx?iid=2181146
Listening to that song and reading the lyrics while looking at the pictures of the poppies just about undid me earlier this morning. I was meditating on the truth of the cost of our salvation in terms of Christ’s shed blood, just as we meditate today on the cost of our peace and freedom in terms of human lives lost… It made me doubly thankful for Christ’s redeeming work, and the freedoms in the US and the UK.
Thank you Karen for those helpful URLs. I think that the authorities have been taken by surprise by the public response. Huge, respectful crowds going to see the exhibit, so much so that at times transport near the Tower has been overwhelmed and the authorities rather crabbily advised people to stay away (thankfully they were ignored). An example of how installation art can catch the imagination and enlarge our understanding.