Has your attention ever been captured by an image, but you weren’t quite sure WHY on first viewing? Has a picture made you pause and ponder? Have you experienced a surge of emotion while watching a movie or a show? If you answered yes, then you’ve experienced VISIO DIVINA: SACRED SEEING. When you desire to gaze at an image, or when an emotion wells up in you as you encounter art, cinema, architecture, or even nature, you are experiencing God’s attempt to get your attention. God wants to “speak” to you through the visual image before you. The act of prayerful gazing, or visio divina, is one way we can respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit working in us to pay attention to our inner lives. The image becomes a means for us to encounter God and to learn about ourselves. Jump into Danica’s latest Spiritual Quick Tip to learn more about what this creative prayer practice can look like in YOUR life!
(NOTE: If you want to actually SEE the ART Danica references in this podcast, check out the video on YouTube: VISIO DIVINA: God Speaks to YOU Through ART! A Spiritual Quick Tip with Danica! - EP 18)
LINKS TO THE ART MUSEUMS MENTIONED:
OOOH! And if you’d like to try Visio Divina from the comfort of your own home, visit these art museums online and give it a go!
The Getty Center - https://www.getty.edu/
Philadelphia Museum of Art - www.philamuseum.org
Ashmolean Museum Oxford- https://www.ashmolean.org/
National Gallery of Art - https://www.nga.gov/
National Portrait Gallery London - https://www.npg.org.uk/
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DANICA CHILDS is a Spiritual Director with a MA in Spiritual Formation/Soul Care from Talbot Seminary and a MA in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. Her sister AUTUMN is a storyteller passionate about the spiritual gifts and creating with the Holy Spirit. We’re sisters who've spent a combined forty years in various forms of ministry, including co-planting a church in Hollywood with other families, where we served in a variety of leadership roles for around a decade. Later we began THE AUDACIOUS ADVENTURE as a Los Angeles based ministry in 2016. We daily pursue creative, artistic, messy, and joyful lives of adventure in Southern California with our family and friends!
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