This was inspired by this talk by Sara Groves entitled “Telling the truth with your art”

https://youtu.be/ZysL8jzLnNI?si=Lroh0NG7dSHHECcK

Transcript:

Come, holy Spirit, I lift up coco. I ask for. openness, courage for her, as she looks at. What's happening in her community, in her family, in her own heart, and mind. that she would be open, to reality, to be open, to the things that are good and growing, and to the things that are hard and painful and dissonant.

And I pray that you would help her wholeheartedly to bring all of that to you in prayer and conversation and in her times of making art. And I pray that that holy offering and courage would imbue her art with divine power and blessing that I might bless other people. because she's inviting you into it. Because you are helping her think through it, process it, and make it. that it's no longer something she's making by herself. You are making with her.

I Pray that it would imbue her art with this divine power to bless others. That She would be richly blessed from it, from the process of making it. She would be able to share it with great joy. And then it would be a doorway for other people and her family and friends. to know some facet of you Amen.