{"id":649,"date":"2023-12-12T23:41:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/?p=649"},"modified":"2023-12-12T23:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:41:38","slug":"sketching-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/2023\/12\/12\/sketching-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Friday I took a quiet day from my full schedule and spent the day at Holy Cross Monastery, where there are quiet spaces, comfortable chairs, good lunches, and wonderful river views, all wrapped up in an atmosphere of prayer and contemplation. Last year I took one day at the monastery each week of Advent, and I&#8217;m hoping to do likewise this year. When I am there my phone is on airplane mode and I spend my day in silence, reading Scripture, praying, musing, and sketching.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I consider all of these sketches from last week to be a form of &#8220;sketching as prayer,&#8221; whether or not I have Scripture or my own thoughts and prayers written on them, because I did them with an attentiveness to God. I often find that when I start to sketch, a part of me becomes  more inclined to worship, more open to God&#8217;s still, small voice, and also drawn into prayer for other people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/River-Reflections-120723-1-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/River-Reflections-120723-1-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/River-Reflections-120723-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/River-Reflections-120723-1-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/River-Reflections-120723-1-1140x811.jpg 1140w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tree-Roots-Transformed-by-Sunlight-120823-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tree-Roots-Transformed-by-Sunlight-120823-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tree-Roots-Transformed-by-Sunlight-120823-768x1106.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tree-Roots-Transformed-by-Sunlight-120823-600x864.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tree-Roots-Transformed-by-Sunlight-120823.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">These upturned tree roots are bland gray, except when sunrise turns them golden<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-River-View-120823-736x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"639\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-River-View-120823.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/?attachment_id=639\" class=\"wp-image-639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-River-View-120823-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-River-View-120823-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-River-View-120823-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-River-View-120823-600x835.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-River-View-120823.jpg 836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Quiet sketching with wordless prayer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Oak-120823.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"638\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Oak-120823.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/?attachment_id=638\" class=\"wp-image-638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Oak-120823.jpg 854w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Oak-120823-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Oak-120823-768x898.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Oak-120823-600x702.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Crucifix-120823-710x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"637\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Crucifix-120823.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/?attachment_id=637\" class=\"wp-image-637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Crucifix-120823-710x1024.jpg 710w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Crucifix-120823-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Crucifix-120823-768x1108.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Crucifix-120823-600x865.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Holy-Cross-Crucifix-120823.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Crucifix in the Monastery Church of St. Augustine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I took a quiet day from my full schedule and spent the day at Holy Cross Monastery, where there are quiet spaces, comfortable chairs, good lunches, and wonderful river views, all wrapped up in an atmosphere of prayer and contemplation. Last year I took one day at the monastery each week of Advent, and I&#8217;m hoping to do likewise this year. When I am there my phone is on airplane mode and I spend my day in silence, reading Scripture, praying, musing, and sketching. I consider all of these sketches from last week to be a form of &#8220;sketching as prayer,&#8221; whether or not I have Scripture or my own thoughts and prayers written on them, because I did them with an attentiveness to God. I often find that when I start to sketch, a part of me becomes more inclined to worship, more open to God&#8217;s still, small voice, and also drawn into prayer for other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-prayer","tag-advent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theartofprayer.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}