The courage to Pray--note on Easter prayer posted by Peter Menkin, FullThursday, April 8th 2010 @ 4:49 AM (not yet rated)    post viewed 922 times

The courage to Pray--note on Easter prayer
by Peter Menkin

Searching for the words, the courage
to pray enters my life. Like an arrow,
the declaration of thanksgiving comes
and I say aloud, moving my lips:

Like promise, like heart song, like breath
that is in me--speak. My friend the monk
advises: speak. So trying short notes,
with courage of soul, speak I do.

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The artist who painted the flowers, what I call tulips, has a name: Jerome Lawrence. Fortunately, this painting is in the Episcopal Church Visual Arts web page archives.Jerome Lawrence
http://www.ecva.org/exhibition/Gifts2009/Lawrence.htm

Jerome Lawrence says: I find beauty in both subject and process. I bargain with artistic elements in varying intensity, variety, placement and proportion then shift within styles as if choosing colors or shapes.

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