The Maker's Space

At the next  Maker’s Space workshop,  we will be experiencing God in a creative prayer, making crosses from broken, found or discarded items that the world doesn’t value, and making it into a work of God.  We will be praying in a physical way of making a cross, all the while allowing God to speak to you.  So, this week, start to collect the things you find at home, on a walk, in an old drawer or in a parking lot, that you could use in or on a cross and bring them to our next workshop on  Sunday, April 2, 4-6pm .  We will be exploring what the things God gives you that the world discards, can say to you about God.  These ideas are taken from the book,  Making Crosses—A creative Connection to God, by Ellen Morris Prewitt . Register at 2013themakersspace@gmail.com  

  We had a wonderful workshop with Allison leading us in painting our emotions.  We started with putting a color on paper of what a description of anger, joy, peace and love would look like to each of us in color. The next paintings were guided layers of emotions, perhaps a lie we believed, and the truth that we know, all represented in colors and layers.  Some of the pictures from the evening are below.

Supplies needed: watercolor paper, pen and watercolors and water container Welcome to the Maker’s Space. Relax and enjoy this time that you have set aside to feed your creative side, where you have something in common with our creative God. This is our second session of Creative Prayer. We are going to be focusing on 3 different types of prayer,   meditation, contemplation and thanksgiving.   Both meditation and contemplation are introspective, quiet and reflective, and are often confused, but meditation is stimulated by something external;   a text, a quote, a sound, an image, a thought or even a repetitive action, while contemplation deals with the purely internal:   silence, stillness, void, release, and the lack of emphasis on reasoning and rational thought. Contemplation uses your imagination or day dreaming, and in meditation we will use a tree image to think back over things in your past and how they have shaped you.   So, we will be using a little bit of both.   One of the dang

  The November 13 session on praying creatively, has a new time from 4-6pm.  This is to accommodate the space's meeting times. Feel free to come and bring a friend or neighbor and carve out some time to listen to what God is saying to you! Please RSVP to 2013themakersspace@gmail.com to reserve your spot with supplies!

Supplies needed:  watercolor paper, pen, acrylic paints   Welcome to The Maker’s Space.   We are creatures of emotion, and prayer is a conversation of emotion.   In this series of Creative Prayer , we are going to use art to help us pray in a creative way.   Sometimes using words, but most of the time trying to rely on the Holy Spirit to use color and form in order to express our hearts to God.   It may make no sense to you, but you are allowing the Holy Spirit to pray for you. It takes practice to notice your intuitions and to let go of control.

 Why pray?  "First, God.  God is the subject of life.  God is foundational for living.  If we don't have a sense of the primacy of God, we will never get it right, get life right, get our lives right.  Not God at the margins; not God as an option; not God on the weekends.  God at center and circumference; God first and last. Having a conversation with God may be less about you and more about God.  Your focus may shift away from yourself and toward your creator.  If you have a friend who constantly asks you for things but never really wants to listen to you, how deep can your relationship go?  Sometimes we forget that God has a personality and a creative side to Him, and wants to engage us at a deeper level.  Let prayer be a time to savor.  Look forward to spending time with God, using art as a tool to slow down and be with God.  Allow this to be a time in which God speaks to you and you actively seek Him.  An audible voice may not come booming out of the clouds, but many thing