This is the transcript of the reflection on this image.
Take a deep breath.
My therapist this past week gave me a really great way of looking at our breathing.
She said, sometimes I feel like God breathes for us.
And so when I'm inhaling And we can take a nice big inhale right now.
We're breathing in the breath of life
And as we're exhaling our breath.
We breathe out any burdens that we can hand over to our loving God.
So just take a couple of deep breaths and then look at the photo.
Look at the foreground, the background.
What details do you notice?
Look at the colors, the texture, what draws your attention?
Let's focus on that for a moment.
And what does that say to you?
Focus in and meditate on that piece that is drawing your attention.
What might God be saying to you through that? Why do you think God has drawn your attention to this.
Do you sense any kind of invitation? Or exploration.
Can you relate to what's in the picture.
What do you think it means?
Do you hear a call?
Does it remind you of anything?
Is there an emotion that this evokes in you?
Is there a word that describes how you feel about what you're seeing, what you're experiencing?
I'm a wolf fan. My niece actually works for a wolf preserve in Colorado and the one thing that has always stood out to me about wolves is they are family oriented. They will do whatever is necessary to protect their family.
What is your prayer? Watching this image kind of unfold in your mind.
For me, my attention is drawn to the person bent over with an unknown face and clenched fists and the feeling that it evokes in me is this is a person who's struggling but that… There is an army behind them, protecting them, watching over them.
What do you feel if you put yourself in that picture?