WOW – Post-Communion Blessing and Prayer

People will sit under their own vines and fig trees with no one to make them afraid. —Micah 4:4 (The Inclusive Bible)

The Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr called this “audacious faith.”

“Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid
If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we’ve made.” -excerpt from The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

Welcome to Day 34 of the Wonders of Worship (WOW) series. Today we ponder the Post-Communion Blessing and Prayer.

Ways to Engage:

Practice Visio Divina (receive, reflect, respond, rest) with the painting.
Download the B&W image. Color it on your own or with a friend. Color in silence or while listening to Amanda Gorman recite her poem, The Hill We Climb, linked above. Let it inspire further contemplation/conversation.
You do you. Trust your intuition and engage in the way your heart desires.

To download the black and white image for personal use: on a computer, click and drag the image to your desktop; on a phone, press on the picture until it gives you the option to save it to your photos. The image is formatted to fit on an 8.5″x11″ piece of paper, but feel free to print it whatever size you’d like.

Background: I created a series of forty 5″x7″ watercolor paintings inspired by the elements of worship. It was work commissioned by a project with Nourishing Vocation with Children at St. Olaf College, a program funded through Lilly Endowment’s Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative.

As the paintings are shared, you may notice a pattern: