BAJ Prompt: Favorite Prayer

THE ASSIGNMENT

Use this theme [a favorite prayer] as a prompt for poetry or other musings in your art journal...keeping in mind a visual element along with the writings. (from Blissfully Art Journaling)

MY PROCESS

This isn't my "favorite prayer" - but it was a prayer that I was able to visualize.

I used a portion of a poem I wrote a few years ago:

My faith is balanced on a pedestal
displayed like priceless artistry

one thoughtless gesture
one careless stumble

My faith could plummet to the ground
and suspend me in a breathless moment

and combined that with the prayer in Luke 22:32:

“But,” Jesus said, “I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not.”

For the visual elements I added a very simple collage of a "pedestal" (as mentioned in the poem) and a sketch of a hand (symbolizing that Jesus will "catch my faith" if it wavers).

MY THOUGHTS

I struggled with not wanting to add too much that would distract from the words, so I think that the picture may be overly simple. My biggest triumph was the hand - I (who cannot draw) sketched that!

Scripture Concepts: Isaiah 54

Isaiah 54 can be metaphorically understood as a message that all of our dreams and desires will be fulfilled - if we allow our spirits to be enlarged through God's refining processes. God can impregnate us with promise.

Sing, O barren, you who have not borne!

Enlarge the place of your tent,

And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings

For you shall expand to the right and to the left,

And your descendants will inherit the nations,

And make the desolate cities inhabited.