Holy Seeing

We cannot heal what we cannot feel. And if you’re like me, letting myself feel—really feel—what I’m feeling is an everyday do-over kind of thing. To even begin to approach that task, I need art. Art makes me feel. When I submit to it, I am able to feel more and thereby see and sense and hear more and thereby love myself and others more. I need those others—people far away and nearby—to remember again that we’re all of us invited to art (the healing game).

Look at all that goodness in the image above. That’s my friend, Lanecia Rouse, looking at you. Among her themes is holy seeing. And my learning community is taking up that theme in a series of events tomorrow (Monday, March 15th). It’s all free. You’re invited. I also invite you to tell anyone you know within driving or walking distance of Belmont University that they’re invited too. Parking, by the way, is easy-peasy. The Gabhart Chapel is located within the Janet Ayers Academic Center which has multilevel underground parking.

To begin, there’s a 10am Chapel talk with Dr. Natalie Carnes of Duke Divinity.

Then, at 3:30pm, we have Lanecia Rouse speaking to us from right outside the chapel.

And then, from 6:00-7:30, we have a conversation between Rouse and Carnes and poetry from Gregory Thompson and music from Zandy Mowry and John-Mark McGaha and, the one the only, Peter Dark.

I am personally preemptively persuaded by the entire situation. Perhaps you will be too.

Join us.