Share: Comments Along the Way
WELCOME to our #ColorYourLent 2019 online community!
What a joy to have you with us! This Lent I invite you to “fast” from activities that weigh you down. Instead I invite you to “feast” on the spiritual practice of contemplative coloring that I believe can enlighten and enliven your faith journey. Leading up to Lent, I have been praying for each of you by name in hopes that this time of Praying with Mandalas together will draw us closer to Jesus and to one another.
In each "Share" section of this course I will post weekly questions for reflection and community sharing. I especially encourage you to share your mandala images, if you are willing, as a visual blessing to our community. Remember there is no “right” way to color a mandala. Whatever you create is a beautiful, sacred work of art.
It is my deep hope that this will also be a safe space where prayers can be shared confidentially (without judgment or the need to “fix it” for one another) and that we will hold one another tenderly with an abundance of faith, hope and love.
During these days between Ash Wednesday and the first Sunday of Lent, I encourage you to create a quiet, “set apart” prayer space for your Lenten journey where you can be intentional about prayer, coloring and stillness. Gather together the supplies you will need - colored pencils, Praying with Mandalas (either your own copy of the book or mandalas printed from the online PDFs), a Bible, candle, etc – and keep them in your prayer space so that everything will be ready when you are.
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