# @plusjames on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/-e4oijBKiO
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20819301-plusjames-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/2b3c9b8f3e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2015-11-24T21:25:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** James Ramos (@plusjames) — https://gondola.cc/plusjames

## Caption

Usually, iconographers meditate in silence while writing icons. Except when I asked if it was OK to talk to them while they were busy painting. "I think the fact that God put a paintbrush in my when I'm the least likely person to ever paint is awesome and the thing for which I am most grateful," one lady said to me while mixing her paints with Holy Water. She's Byzantine Catholic and an iconographer for more than 33 years. "Writing an icon is a journey, the icon is the souvenir. Every journey, you enter into the spirit of the icon, making it a journey of prayer to become closer to God. Writing an icon just to write one is a waste of time. With so much fear in the world now, the more we can enter into a spirit of prayer, the better we are." #GoodisWinning #churchhou

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