guidelines — A Prayer Writer's Journey

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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Easter Joy

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

Blog, How to, guidelines on pysankyNancy KopackApril 3, 2023pysanky, guidelines, symmetry, Ukrainian Easter eggs, pencil guidelines, Easter joy, prayer, start-to-finish photos

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.

Blog, EasterNancy KopackMarch 29, 2021Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, soul-wisdom, pink, bunny, meditation

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!

BlogNancy KopackJuly 31, 2020Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, soul-wisdom, talk therapy, scientific research

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.

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Prayer for World Healing

Let unity, fellowship and peace among all people in all nations be the harvested result of this globally experienced ordeal.

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Becoming A Prayer Writer: Part 2

The conclusion of how a life-long love of pysanky created a modern-day prayer writer!

BlogNancy KopackMarch 3, 2020Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, affirmations, soul-wisdom

Becoming a Prayer Writer: Part 1

Sharing how my love for Ukrainian pysanky transformed into the spiritual practice of prayer writing.

BlogNancy KopackFebruary 2, 2020Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, affirmations, soul-wisdom

Are You Ready?

A story about my nephew’s Australian sheep dog that affirms a positive mindset for the new year and beyond!

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

Flowers of the Holy Night

The message in the legend of the “Flowers of the Holy Night” is profoundly beautiful: "Even the most humble gift — given with love — is acceptable to Him."

BlogNancy KopackDecember 1, 2019Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, affirmations, soul-wisdom

Thanksgiving and Gratitude

This beautiful Thanksgiving prayer by Ralph Waldo Emerson will brighten your holiday with gratitude.

BlogNancy KopackNovember 3, 2019Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, affirmations, soul-wisdom

Dye Enhancement - Tulips

Flowers written on a pysanka symbolize devotion. In springtime, tulips are a welcome sight after a cold, dreary winter. The following is an experiment in which dye is…

BlogNancy KopackOctober 1, 2019Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines

What You Alone Can Do

“The Lord’s perfect plan includes your sincere offering to do what you alone can do — and that is very acceptable in God’s sight."

BlogNancy KopackAugust 31, 2019Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, affirmations, soul-wisdom

God + Prayer = Action

Prayer writers know that the simple prayer, “God help me,” is very effective. So, how does the adage, “God helps those who help themselves” impact prayer?

BlogNancy KopackAugust 1, 2019Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, affirmations, soul-wisdom, will power

Pysanky Writer: Karen Hanlon

Pysanky writer, Karen Hanlon shares her faith-filled passion for pysanky: “The end result is more than just a decorated egg. It’s prayer itself.”

BlogNancy KopackJune 8, 2019Ukrainian Easter eggs, pysanky, spiritual practice, God, prayer, guidelines, optimism, affirmations, soul-wisdom