Click To Pray 2 (Visual Version)
In connection with Dream To Go 16, here's a visual way to ask a similar question. (Keep adding to the comments in the previous post too - click here)
In the image below are 5 "landscapes" (easy to think of more).
(Click on image to see a larger version)

Each represents a different "place" you might be:
- City e.g. you're thinking a lot about career, purpose, what is my life for?
- Beach e.g. life is basically going OK, or really well.
- Mountain e.g. there is some mountain to climb for you right now - it feels too big.
- Canyon e.g. there is a difficult path ahead, but you have to walk it, but it opens out eventually.
- Desert e.g. looking for a path, or feeling dry and weary and needing refreshment.
... or maybe the landscapes suggest different life situations to you.
Which (if any) of these landscapes are you walking through at the moment?
Maybe you'd like to leave a comment, and as before, you might pray quickly for someone else who's posted.
I'm working through the Psalms at the moment trying to place them in different landscapes e.g. Desert (13, 63); Beach (16) and so on to represent what situation they describe, to give some kind of roadmap for the things we go through - not about glib answers or "here's a verse to make you feel better" ... much more than that - a sense that countless people have walked these landscapes before us, and their words are like footprints to follow.
Please feed in your ideas and thoughts about how this kind of visual approach could be helpful in your spiritual journey.
Thanks
Richard Lyall
2 Comments:
I like this idea lots.
Just before I logged onto this, I was on a website looking for accomodation.
For the past three years I have been lodging with a lovely family and on the whole it has been a really good living situation. However, this was never meant to be forever and as my health is steadily improving, the time is coming for me to move out and take another step on the road to independence.
But I'm terrified.
This feels like the most enormous mountain that I've got to climb, and financial and health circumstances, whilst better, are far from ideal. I would also like to live in the same community (I work and am involved in church here) but it isn't the kind of area where there are many young house-shares. It all seems insurmountable at the moment and I feel as though I am stood at the bottom of that volcano...
5:53 PM
I think that in a deep canyon represents where I'm at - I feel that God is wanting to meet me in a place where I'm pretty much stripped of everything. i can't walk or drive because of my knee injury,just day to day living is a massive logistical effort... It feels like a whole load of external influences are conspiring to reinforce lies I've believed about myself, just at a time when I think God wants to bring me healing in that area..I guess I feel like I'm in narrow place where I'm vulnerable to ambush, but believing that's where God wants to take me, to bring me through to an open place of healing and wholeness..
I could really use some prayer for protection while this process is happening.
12:55 PM
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