I am a doodler. I have always been. The time and place I doodle the most: Sunday morning worship.
Like Sunni said, it is something we need to do and something we have told ourselves we are not allowed to do. It is something so simple, yet for me it is my concentration, my process and what allows me to be present. Yet my reality and need to be present has others thinking I am distracted, inattive and disrespectful.
There is a lot the church must learn about the simple role of art in worship, prayer, and discipleship.
Resources to checkout:
Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God — Sybil MacBeth
“Maybe you hunger to know God better. Maybe you love color. Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractible or impatient soul, or a word-weary prayer. Perhaps you struggle with a short attention span, a restless body, or a tendency to live in your head. This new prayer form can take as little or as much time as you have or want to commit, from 15 minutes to a weekend retreat.”A new prayer form gives God an invitation and a new door to penetrate the locked cells of our hearts and minds,” explains Sybil MacBeth. “For many of us, using only words to pray reduces God by the limits of our finite words.”
Praying in Color: Kids’ Edition — Sybil MacBeth
the Artist Rule: nurturing your creative soul with monastic wisdom — Christine Valters Paintner
Readers discover and develop their creative gifts in a spirit of prayer and reflection. This twelve-week course draws on the insights and practices of Benedictine spirituality to explore the interplay between contemplation and creativity.”
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