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The Old Rugged Cross

This piece was created in memorial to my Father, Stan Wilson and was inspired by a poem that he wrote. 

A Man on His Horse on Top of a Ridge - by Stan Wilson.

A man on his horse on top of a ridge,
As daylight begins to appear,
The sights and the sounds of the world all around
Are natures gift to his ears.

Yet the stars in the sky and the mountains so high
Tell a story about all creation
A man on his horse on top of a ridge
Are a small speck of dust in relation.

As he looks down below,
The lights start to glow
As people prepare for their day
In their buildings so grand, their steeples so tall
Where they sing and worship and pray.

To the man on his horse on top of the ridge
He hears the sound of their call.
But the man sits his horse on top of the ridge
In the greatest church of them all.

The poem says so much about the spirituality of the people who live in close contact with the land. As the horse and rider are carefully picking their way down a rocky trail, they are passing beneath an old lightning struck pine. They may not have noticed the cracked tree and the Old Rugged Cross deep in the bark but they have certainly felt the presence of the Creator in the land through which they are passing.

For Stan Wilson

Limited edition /25

17.5 inches high
12 inches wide
12 inches long
without base