GHOST RANCH, ABIQUIU, NEW MEXICO, USA.The World Canvas traveled from the Presbyterian Church of Ireland to Ghost Ranch, the Presbyterian retreat center that was formerly the studio and inspiration for American Artist, Georgia O’Keefe. This particular worship experience (and the setting) provided a thin space in which prayer and art were the mediums between our humanity and the divine. The prayers formed with word, color, shape and form seemed an appropriate silent language to lift up our prayers together. Nearly 50 people, children, youth and adults moved from the Sacrament of Communion to the sacrament of art and prayer. Someone made the remark that to watch the silhouettes of the people moving about the table, with a backdrop of the high desert mountains, became a prayer of movement.
