Just a Little Longer

These are some snippets from my September prayer painting...

... still on the wall, in progress.

I felt certain yesterday

that a few hours today

would bring us to that place of 'filled up', complete

~ sweet sigh of devotion. ~

But as my practice and life would have it sometimes

I am pulled to spend several sessions,

spaced apart. 

I have actually come to find this frequency

suits my spiritual practice and needs.

I get to lose time with the process, 

in prayer,

in color,

and then step away, into my life.

Then I get to go back again,

committed to see it through,

to this practice I love,

this love I crave,

to the fountain of ritual re-focusing,

re-opening myself to the intention...

to pray

and listen.

No matter the prayer,

always to listen.

And today as I offered my prayer, I heard the painting...

... still calling me to sit with her just a little longer,

another day,

into the cool kiss of October.

~

30 september 2012

hali

~

You can now see some of the amazing prayer art

being created

by those in the facebook Art of Prayer group.

I will post the above painting just as soon as she's complete, with my reflections on the process, later this week.

I will also post October's Prayer Art Invitation

by the 5th of the new month!!