Image: “rainbow cubes with holes” by Jared Tarbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
Stretching the sense of “in public” here, except of course that Flickr itself is a networked public. But when this photo popped into a recent search I couldn’t help but grab it.
The creator’s description of the process certainly sounds prayerful to me:
Various sizes ranging from small to smaller. Cube pattern is generated from my own algorithms with each cube face being unique. The material size is unbounded, this paper measures about .0276″. Each is most delicately pressed together by hand with small tools. No glue. Watercolored individually by hand.
Simply lovely, especially in a week when we’ve just been reminded of rainbows as a symbol of covenant love (see below).
Related Scripture
Genesis 9:8-17 (WEB, Public Domain)
8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. 11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
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The Muppet Movie by Jim Henson
“Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection—the lovers, the dreamers, and me.”
A Chorus of Witnesses: Model Sermons for Today’s Preacher by Thomas Long & Cornelius Plantinga Jr. (editors)
Contains that lovely Frederick Buechner “Sprig of Hope” sermon.