Blessing and Healing - I Hope and Pray

After I'd posted the first icon I wrote (factoid - you write an icon, you don't paint it), a friend who is undergoing treatment for cancer commented how much she liked it.  So much so, she was wondering how she might be able to acquire it.  The tradition of creating icons has a pretty strict stipulation that you don't give away your first one because it is full of your frailties and flesh, not spirit and prayer.  While she was gracious when I explained that, I determined she'd have one to help her along in her healing journey.

Carolyn Rock and the rest of the West Michigan iconography family were gracious in assisting me with materials, prayer, and moral support in creating the Archangel Gabriel.  The messenger.  My prayer is that he brings a message of healing to my friend.  

After a couple weeks it was finished, and I presented it to my friend.  She was speechless.  No small feat.
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Have a glimpse.  And while you're thinking of it, join me in prayer for her healing.