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Let Sleep find you...
December 14th 2008
Used: india ink, various nibs, watercolor pencils, and pencil.
I made this as a Christmas present for my twin sister (that's her in the picture sleeping). A couple years ago (about 2-3 years ago) I read a book of quotes by the saints and this was one that I remembered, mostly because I teased my twin sister about it. It was kind of a funny, gentle rebuke sort-of-thing, because my twin sister is notorious in my family for falling asleep while she prays.
We actually have a name for it now, we call it "Splaying." 
I guess she's not the only one who does it either, so she's in good company.
In case you can't read it, it says:
"Let sleep find you holding your Bible, and when your head nods, let it be resting on a sacred page." ~ Saint Jerome
December 14th 2008
Used: india ink, various nibs, watercolor pencils, and pencil.
I made this as a Christmas present for my twin sister (that's her in the picture sleeping). A couple years ago (about 2-3 years ago) I read a book of quotes by the saints and this was one that I remembered, mostly because I teased my twin sister about it. It was kind of a funny, gentle rebuke sort-of-thing, because my twin sister is notorious in my family for falling asleep while she prays.
We actually have a name for it now, we call it "Splaying." I guess she's not the only one who does it either, so she's in good company. In case you can't read it, it says:
"Let sleep find you holding your Bible, and when your head nods, let it be resting on a sacred page." ~ Saint Jerome
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"Be diligent in reading the divine Scriptures, yes, be diligent...
Knock, and the doorkeeper will open unto you...
And be not content to knock and to inquire, for the most necessary aid to spiritual truth is prayer. Hence our Savior said not only "Knock, and it shall be opened," and "Seek, and you shall find," but "Ask, and it shall be given you." Each of us who serves the word of God digs wells and seeks living waters, from which he may renew his hearers." - Origen
Knock, and the doorkeeper will open unto you...
And be not content to knock and to inquire, for the most necessary aid to spiritual truth is prayer. Hence our Savior said not only "Knock, and it shall be opened," and "Seek, and you shall find," but "Ask, and it shall be given you." Each of us who serves the word of God digs wells and seeks living waters, from which he may renew his hearers." - Origen