An Instrument of Peace

 

Blog #70

May your Thanksgiving celebration be filled with gratitude

and blessed with an inner peace that expands into brotherly love for all.

Here’s the finished result of the 40-Triangle guidelines presented in Blog #69.

 
 

Symbolism

Written in this pysanka’s symbolism is the prayer for the soul to express its

perfection — the image and likeness of God within — in all of life’s circumstances.

Ladders, symbolic of ascending to greater heights, define the 40 triangles.

The Triangles represent consciousness, awareness, mindfulness. The foundational

40-Triangle symbol signifies good fortune.

White represents purity, the perfection of the soul, intuition. Compassion, kindness, truthfulness, contentment and sincerity — qualities reflecting the soul’s integrity — are represented by the Sun symbol rising on the horizon of conscious awareness; its light striving to become God-like, to become One with Him, to become whole again.

Red conveys passion, willingness, effort. Blue conveys expansiveness, endless possibilities. Yellow conveys success, grace, understanding.

A Prayer by Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,


Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;


where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Spirit,

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life
.

Amen

 
 

Ukrainian folklore characterizes pysanky as a symbolic, talismanic writing that invokes a higher Universal Power for help, while believing with faithful certainty that It will. The contemporary version of this characterization is a paper-and-pen journaling practice called prayer writing. Both develop a personal relationship with God.

 
 

 
 

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