Opening us up into the fertile territory of the heart, her subjects include love and intimacy, suffering and redemption, family, longing and belonging (both human and religious), nostalgia, nature, the angelic world, aging, beauty, and more.

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And because all this is communicated through the wordless medium of her artwork, we get to encounter certain feeling places in our own hearts that we might not otherwise recognize. Someone has to paint the subtler realities of feeling, in its many dimensions ~ as Van Gogh did, as Rembrandt did ~ for us to know the fullness of ourselves and who we might become.

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Cara Berton's drawings and paintings give us this.

 

The lines drawn by her pen and her brush are able to evoke both a primal loneiness and a holy longing for belonging and wholeness. This longing takes both a human form and a religious form, and the many evocative drawings of Jesus in this collection should speak not only to devout Christians but also to people with other faiths, or even no religious faith. 

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There are also images of love and intimacy, family, being on the journey, suffering and redemption, flowering, nature from an urban window, beauty, joy, whimsy, and more.

 

As you go through this book, may you find in these graphic expressions what your heart, soul, and spirit need for your own healing journey.  

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Experience Cara's Complete Collection 

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Here are a few images from the book. (There are 98 in all.)