The Sacred Practice of Drawing That Becomes Prayer

Here I am, on the road this October, traveling for the studio and carrying my sketchbook beside me. What I’m learning, more deeply than ever, is that drawing/ sketching is a sacred time. It’s prayer that brings me home to my truest self.

Each line I draw gathers up the moments I’m living in the quiet, the beauty, the ache, the gratitude and turns them into conversation. This practice has welcomed me into the arms of new friends, into fresh landscapes of grace, and into the tender realisation that art can be a meeting place between heaven and earth.

When I draw, I sense that I’m not simply recording what I see, but opening a space to listen. The act itself becomes a sacred rhythm that is meditative, contemplative, and deeply communicative. It’s where prayer meets pencil, and presence meets page.

What I am discovering is much like Visio Divina ~ a prayerful seeing. Through this way of creating, I’m invited to reflect, to respond, and to recognise God in the textures of my journey. Every commission, every sketch, every stretch of road holds the possibility of divine conversation.

And so I draw not just to make art, but to be drawn closer to the One who inspires it. In walking with God, I allow myself to be cleansed of all that I’ve had to endure ~ the pain, the silence, the long seasons of suffering that have shaped both body and mind. In that cleansing, my ability to create opens wide. Through the visual language of art, I begin to see life from many different perspectives and angles.

Drawing as prayer allows me to express worries, desires, and gratitude to God, transforming the creative process into a sacred spiritual discipline. It becomes a way to pray without words, to hold stillness in motion, and to discover a new pathway that deepens both spiritual connection and wholeness.

Lisa Raie xox