3 Ways the Arts Heal Through Compassion and Open Wounds [Eps 28]
Compassion allows a person to suffer with another. As creative influencers, we have an amazing power to share bits of ourselves through our creations: a joy, a heartbreak, or even an open wound from which we are still trying to heal.
This episode describes three ways the arts help us show compassion as wounded healers and includes a breath prayer (text below).
We can show compassion when we know it in our own lives.
“…experience tells us that we can only love because we are born out of love, that we can only give because our life is a gift, and that we can only make others free because we are set free by Him whose heart is greater than ours. When we have found the anchor places for our lives in our own center, we can be free to let others enter into the space created for them and allow them to dance their own dance, sing their own song and speak their own language without fear.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
I hope the guided 5-minute breath prayer will help you understand God's compassion for you:
Inhale: Compassionate God
Exhale: You see me.
Inhale: Loving Father,
Exhale: You welcome me.
Inhale: Trusted Counselor,
Exhale: You hold me.
Inhale: Faithful Emmanuel,
Exhale: You stay with me.
Inhale: Gracious Healer,
Exhale: You restore me.
Links from this episode:
Return of the Prodigal bronze sculpture by Charlie Mackesy
