LENT DEVOTIONAL: WEEK 6
Creative Response: Retrace your Lenten journey of the past 6 weeks with what I call a “word map of remembrance.” On a blank page, write down single words that describe anything that has come up for you in this journey from winter to spring. They don’t have to be organized or written in any order. Don’t think of this as a list but more of a map of discovery of how God has been leading you. Through prayer and reflection, see how the words reveal how you’ve been led through this season. Is there one word that especially stands out or keeps coming up?
Other ideas for your word map:
Find your words in magazine pages, cut them out and make a word map collage, use paint or drawing as un underlayer
Write a haiku using your word map
Write a psalm using your word map
Thank you for joining me on this devotional series. Thank you to my friends at Art House North for partnering with me in this season and sharing the weekly reflections. The art work each week was provided by my dear friend, Natalie Salminen Rude. I used close ups of an art installation she created for a Vivid Artistry retreat in 2018 which became a prayerful focal point for the attendees to interact with. This final week you see the reveal of the full piece. It consists of hand drawn maps of Duluth, MN and has since hung in Duluth City Hall. I am so thankful it could lead the way for us through the revealing of a wintering season to the new hope of spring’s arrival in our hearts. Happy Easter my friends!
Libby John is an artist partner with Art House North and is the director of Vivid Artistry and host of the Art and Faith Podcast. Subscribe to her weekly devotionals HERE. Art Work provided by Natalie Salminen Rude.