Icons, Gaze, See and Seen

St Stephen's Church, Pinelands. Lenten Themes, Approaches to Prayer

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Icons encourage us to pray with eyes and hearts wide open. To grasp love not just with our hands, or intellects, but more generously through our gaze. A soft, uncritical way of paying attention where you not only see, but you are truly seen in return. This can be hard because it calls us to do nothing except be present.