Icon Workshop "The icon has been described as 'theology in line and colour'" Daphne Trainor led a group of us in painting an icon. We had a marvellous time. As well as enjoying the painting, we also enjoyed the time together talking and sharing stories. We spent three sessions preparing, drawing and painting (it took longer than we had thought!). Then we met in the chapel to bless the icons and offer to God in prayer all that we had shared during the time together - our thoughts, our problems, our concerns and ourselves.
	Ponder These Things (from the Foreward by Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Dokleia) The icon reveals to us what Archbishop Rowan terms 'the utter strangeness of God', but it also shows us God's closeness, God's total involvement, God’s vulnerability. In the world but not of it, the icon bears witness to the nearness yet otherness of the Eternal. It introduces us to a world of mystery, yet at the same time we discover that this mystery is not far away but is hidden within each one of us, closer to us than our own heart.