O God of wisdom and truth, who calls your people to love you with heart, soul, and mind, We come to you at the threshold of this final week— a week filled with papers to complete, exams to prepare for, and responsibilities that press in on every side. You know the weight we carry. The words yet unwritten, the arguments yet clarified, the material not yet mastered. In moments when our minds feel tired and our focus begins to fray, Grant us clarity of thought. Grant us discipline in our time....

#1 : Wounded Watercolor and copper plate gold ink on cold-pressed paper, burnt paper This is a reflection on the nature of longing that belongs to the human condition. I represented it literally as a hole in the heart that we keep trying to fill - a broken cistern which the disciplines of Lent (namely fasting) expose for what it is. Receiving the salvation of Jesus sublimates that longing so that what is broken (a cistern made to contain water) becomes a vessel (a river made to channel...