Ukrainian Easter eggs — A Prayer Writer's Journey

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.

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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.

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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.

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Every Star

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

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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.

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40-Triangle Guidelines

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

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Easter Joy

Enjoy the spiritual vibrations of this holy season and the joyful presence of His divine peace and unconditional love.

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Intuition

Part 3: The design elements take center stage in this “start-to-finish” slideshow. These symbols reflect the prayer to awaken intuition.

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Horizontal Guidelines

Part 2: Creating horizontal guidelines completes the framework of guidelines for this egg’s transformation into a pysanka.

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Vertical Guidelines

Part 1: Here’s a simple way to add pencil guidelines to create the harmonious symmetry that pysanky are known for.

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Baptism

Written to honor the prayers recited during our newest family member’s baptism, this prayer-pysanka seeks God’s favor and protection upon her life and all those that love her.

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It's That Simple: Part 2

The conclusion of how a “near death experience” changed Krista Gorman’s life and her concept of God.

BlogNancy KopackSeptember 29, 2020Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, soul-wisdom

It's That Simple: Part 1

Krista Gorman shares her interesting “near death experience” in this interview and how it changed her life and her concept of God.

BlogNancy KopackSeptember 1, 2020Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, soul-wisdom

Talk Therapy

Prayer writing, an expressive writing practice, is a tell-all, talking-things-over-with-God, asking-Him-for-help therapy — one that can be written with words on the pages of a journal or in symbolic fashion on an egg!

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Let Peace Begin With Me

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me — the peace that was meant to be!

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Art Therapy

A life-altering experience led Carol Riddick to a master’s degree in Creative Arts Therapy. A career helping others expanded her understanding of love’s capacity to heal.