The other evening, I visited the beautiful home of an iconographer. Decorated creatively and furnished arts-and-crafts style, the home exuded a sense of peace and spirituality.
The woman who lives there spends much of her time "writing" icons. Apparently one does not paint an icon, one "writes" an icon because it is a story of the gospel and is thought of as a passage into heaven. Icons came about before the general population could read and thus were ways for the populous to seek God. The idea of an icon is that rather than focusing on the image itself, you look "through" it to become closer to the Lord.
Before any project is begun, the iconographer prays and often fasts for a period of time. She uses gold leaf on some of her pieces, as that is a symbol of divinity.
TV~ (Today's Verse)
One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
[Psalm 27:4]
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