Grandmère Mimi over at Wounded Bird has made a egregious error by claiming that an image appearing in tree branch bears a resemblance to a portrait of her painted by Picasso. The Telegraph had reported that the image resembled the Queen.
This so clearly demonstrates the godless secular inclination of the British press. Everyone knows that when a face is noticed in a piece of wood or a piece of toast, it is a religious figure.
It isn't Jesus, as one commenter noted because the face does not have a forked beard and Malibu -Beach-blond hair and blue eyes. It isn't Mary because because there is no blue-trimmed veil.
So who? It is certainly St. Bertha, Queen of Kent (c. AD 565-612). Perhaps that is what The Telegraph meant.
Grandmère Mimi, do you not see the uncanny resemblance?
I'm sure that we will hear from Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers.
My name is Dan Porter. I have always believed in God. And I have always been a Christian, which means I have always believed, at some level of understanding, Christian assertions about Christ. But during all of my adult life—I am now 65—I have struggled with many seeds of doubt brought on by modern science, objective history, the question of why a loving God would allow so much suffering in the world and difficulties with seemingly conflicting moral precepts. 
Dan, there's a good deal of sense in what you say. Tradition leads us in the direction that faces appearing in the most unexpected and unlikely places must be from the holy class of people. May I suggest an alternative to St. Bertha? St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, (c. 1045 – November 16, 1093) seems a more likely candidate. Of course, that just my opinion.
I posted this comment at my blog, too. Unfortunately, the link to the image of St. Margaret won't work here.
Posted by: Grandmère Mimi | July 12, 2008 at 11:16 PM