The following video slideshow was created Spring 2020 for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto,
in lieu of an in-person art exhibition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f5AVOHtv4
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Follow TendingSpirit on FB to see a larger collection, including current Visual Prayers.
in lieu of an in-person art exhibition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f5AVOHtv4
(copy/paste into your browser)
Follow TendingSpirit on FB to see a larger collection, including current Visual Prayers.
VISUAL PRAYERS: A Spiritual Practice
While going through my daily routines I allow myself to be drawn to something that I see (a movement, a shadow, a shape, color or image). I often take a picture of it without trying to analyze why it calls to me. Later I bring that memory or photograph into my meditations. I open to its meaning by painting it (see examples in the slideshow posted here). I then write down whatever words come up. Most often the words that arise in response to the image are exactly what I "need to hear". The results, called Visual Prayers, have been posted regularly on my Facebook page, TendingSpirit, as well as printed and posted on my fence.
Many neighbors and TendingSpirit Facebook page followers have told me these paintings and words resonate for them and that they have made it a spiritual practice to seek them out. I now consider the posting of these "Visual Prayers" part of my TendingSpirit ministry. I also encourage people to participate in the Sacred Ground FB page I created under TendingSpirit.
(A Youtube link to a 2020 collection of Visual Prayers is posted above. Additional collections will be added to this page periodically.)
While going through my daily routines I allow myself to be drawn to something that I see (a movement, a shadow, a shape, color or image). I often take a picture of it without trying to analyze why it calls to me. Later I bring that memory or photograph into my meditations. I open to its meaning by painting it (see examples in the slideshow posted here). I then write down whatever words come up. Most often the words that arise in response to the image are exactly what I "need to hear". The results, called Visual Prayers, have been posted regularly on my Facebook page, TendingSpirit, as well as printed and posted on my fence.
Many neighbors and TendingSpirit Facebook page followers have told me these paintings and words resonate for them and that they have made it a spiritual practice to seek them out. I now consider the posting of these "Visual Prayers" part of my TendingSpirit ministry. I also encourage people to participate in the Sacred Ground FB page I created under TendingSpirit.
(A Youtube link to a 2020 collection of Visual Prayers is posted above. Additional collections will be added to this page periodically.)