"I started this meditation on the first day of Lent. I hope to
keep going every day until Easter. Each day I go fishing in the
water of this internal voice. This week the water s still, this
angled pen a blue sail; the hook is lazy in the estuary, the water
the color of lapis. So what if I don t catch a fish? I said that I
would fish; that s all I promised. I bait the hook with each day s
discipline. I have no guarantees that there is anything at all to
catch in these particular waters, that something beneath the
surface won t grab my pen and pull me under." from Iconography
When Susan Neville enrolls in an icon-painting class in the
cellar of an Indianapolis monastery, she begins a journey into a
fascinating hidden world where saints are fabricated of mineral and
wood, yolk and blood, earth and time. The process is tedious, and
she begins to make mistakes, to become impatient; she doesn t feel
ready for the challenge. To prepare herself, Neville makes a vow to
write during the 40 days of Lent. What emerges is a journal, a
meditation, a series of confessions that we are invited to listen
to as we follow Neville s sometimes painful attempts to reveal the
truth and discover the mystery of her existence. In the layering of
colors and moods, her writing is the spiritual equivalent of an
icon. As she observes the world around her and applies the paint of
language to her observations, she realizes that spirit and matter
are not separate that now and then moments of meaning emerge from
daily life, and the stillness and majesty of the universe shine
through."
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