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| ICON by Keith Haring Rhodes Contemporary Art, London |
Pride is a positive word as well as negative. Keith Haring is listed on ART Rabbit website and one of the 10 most influential LGBTQ+ contemporary artists. Pride stands for community esteem. But pride also means arrogance, and Proverbs talks quite a bit about about this.
Proverbs Chapter Six
If you’re in a financial pickle, even if it is not your fault,
Be honest. Explain the problem.
Even animals show wisdom.
The deer flees danger at a moment’s notice.
Ants work hard as a community.
They do it naturally. We learn diligence from them.
There are six, (or maybe seven) things your creator hates.
1) Puffed up pride
2) A tongue quick to lie
3) Disregard for the innocent
4) A heart that schemes up evil plots
5) The desire to be wicked
6) Bearing false witness
7) Someone who upsets their family deliberately.
Hold onto the truth you have been given.
It will light your way in the darkness.
It will keep you safe from wandering into a pit of vipers.
We are just human and will get hurt- no question.
They may be excuses to choosing wrong.
But you still have to pay the consequences, whatever the reason.
PRAYER: I am proud of they way you have created a diverse world. But I turn my back on divisive pride.
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