Blog — A Prayer Writer's Journey

Food Coloring

My mother's generation used edible food coloring to dye their pysanky, even after aniline dyes became available. This post explores how practical and creative this option can be.

Blog, Food Coloring Dye, Aniline Dye, Helen BadulakNancy KopackMay 1, 2025pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, aniline dye, Food Coloring, simplification, nostalgia, creative avenue, blending chart, hot-to-use-food-coloring-dyes, Helen Badulak

Symbol: The Star

When the symbol for God signifies His omnipresence, it is called the Star, and it reminds pysanky writers that God is present even in the darkness.

Blog, inspiration, spiritual perspective, New Year inspirationNancy KopackJanuary 1, 2025pysanky, prayer, New Year, inspiration, star symbol, Omnipresence symbol, Ask God for help

Omnipresent Love

In the holiness of this season, a prayer is being whispered: May every heart be illuminated with a love that ever-twinkles bright with glad tidings of joy.

Blog, Christmas, Joy, peace, prayer, Ukrainian pysankyNancy KopackDecember 4, 2024write prayer, pysanky, peace, love and joy, Christmas, Omnipresence, glad tidings, affirmation, prayer

Havest Symbol

Expressing gratitude increases receptivity to the blessings that the Source of all Goodness willingly wants to bestow, making everyday a blessed Thanksgiving Day.

Blog, slide show, pysanky slideshow, Thanksgiving, Harvest, JoyNancy KopackNovember 3, 2024pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky slideshow, gratitude, thanksgiving, St. Francis prayer, Liberating joy, receptivity, harvest, wheat symbol, affirmations, prayer

A Single Prayer

This is a story of how a single prayer changed everything. It’s also a story of hope that a country that once rallied together for a common good, can unite once more.

Blog, inspiration, spiritual perspectiveNancy KopackSeptember 3, 2024inspiration, Divine intervention, unselfishness, pysanky, prayer, power of prayer, 9-11 story, Survivor, God's presence, miracle

Cultivating Awareness

Can life’s disappointments be overcome by cultivating awareness of how restless the ego is and how divinely beautiful the soul is?

Blog, Ukrainian Easter pysanky, prayer writing, inspirationNancy KopackApril 7, 2024write prayer, pysanky, Easter, cultivating awareness, true nature, higher Self, ego or soul

Quietude

In Ukrainian folklore, pysanky are synonymous with peace. Quietude is the state that pysanky writers experience while writing a pysanka.

Blog, pysanky symbols ukrainian, Easter, quietude, Ukrainian Easter pysankyNancy KopackMarch 10, 2024write prayer, pysanky, Easter, quietude, peace, Ukrainian folklore, love and joy

Index: “How-To” Information

Ensure harmony, balance and symmetry with a simple click on the desired how-to index image before starting a pysanka. The How-To Index also includes helpful tips, tools and techniques.

Blog, pysanky slideshow, start to finish slideshow, How-To Index, Tips, Techniques, ToolsNancy KopackFebruary 11, 2024pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, symbolism, guidelines, how-to index, tips, tools and techniques, 40-Triangle, Six-Rose, Swirl design

Set Forward The Day

Astronauts have a truly unique perspective of the world. And for some of them, their out-of-this-world experience impacted their spiritual beliefs and personal relationship with God.

Blog, pysanky slideshow, start to finish slideshow, ChristmasNancy KopackJanuary 1, 2024pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, instrument of peace, seek of divine love, tree of life, spirit and nature, symbolism, holy season, Christmas

Every Star

Reindeer stand before the Tree of Life on this 40-Triangle pysanka which symbolizes Spirit and Nature, good fortune and wisdom.

Blog, pysanky slideshow, start to finish slideshow, ChristmasNancy KopackDecember 4, 2023pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, instrument of peace, seek of divine love, tree of life, spirit and nature, symbolism, holy season, Christmas

An Instrument of Peace

This 40-Triangle pysanka represents the prayer for good fortune: May the blessings of gratitude and inner peace felt within your heart expand into brotherly love for all.

Blog, How to, guidelines on pysanky, slide show, pysanky slideshowNancy KopackNovember 1, 2023pysanky, symmetry, harmonious beauty, Ukrainian Easter eggs, intuition, soul-infused intuition, pysanky slideshow, gratitude, thanksgiving, instrument of peace, St. Francis prayer

40-Triangle Guidelines

The 40-Triangle pysanka symbolizes good fortune. These guidelines are my grandmother’s favorite way to write the 40-Triangle symbol.

Blog, inspiration, spiritual perspective, how-to-directionsNancy KopackOctober 3, 2023pysanky, prayer, 40 Triangle symbol, how-to-directions, Ukrainian Easter eggs, good fortune symbol

Listen to His Whispers

Ari Schonbrun believes that God is looking out for us. Recognizing the many large and small miracles that happen in life can change us. He should know. It happened to him.

Blog, inspiration, spiritual perspectiveNancy KopackSeptember 3, 2023inspiration, Divine intervention, unselfishness, pysanky, prayer, power of prayer, 9-11 story, Survivor, God's presence, miracle

Divine Intervention: Part 4

The power of prayer, from all different faiths worldwide, was evident in the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.

Blog, inspiration, spiritual perspectiveNancy KopackAugust 2, 2023inspiration, brotherly love, Thai cave rescue, Divine intervention, spiritual qualities, unselfishness, pysanky, prayer, power of prayer

Divine Intervention: Part 3

A rock climber and a water magician played an essential role in the Divine plan during the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.