Be a good painter - - Acts of John chapter 29

 Apostle John instructs the new disciple

Lykomedes

But you be a good painter for me,

Lycomedes.  You have colors which 

he gives you through me, that is, JESUS,

who paints us all for himself, who

knows the shapes and forms and figures

and dispositions and types of our souls.

And these are the colors which I tell

you to paint with:

faith in God,

knowledge,

reverence, 

kindness,

fellowship,

mildness,

goodness, 

brotherly love,

purity,

sincerity,

tranquility,

fearlessness,

cheerfulness,

dignity,

and the whole band

of colors which portray

your soul

and already raise up your members

that were cast down and level those that

were lifted up, which cure your bruises

and heal your wounds and arrange your

tangled hair and wash your face and

instruct your eyes and cleanse your

heart and purge your belly and cut off

that which is below it; in brief when a

full blend and mixture of such colors

has come together in your soul it will

present it to our Lord JESUS CHRIST

indelible, well-polished and firmly

shaped. . .

page 133 : The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel

Paintings and Christian Icons -- published by the

Getty Museum, 2016, Los Angeles, CA

printed in Italy [beautiful reproductions of

paintings, sculpture, archaeological recoveries]

from Chapter 4: Icon Stories and Visions