This piece depicts how closely the spiritual and physical realm play and exist together. The sphere is the cold, sterile, insanely noisy canister for a body that seeks imaging. When you enter the large exam room, you walk towards this process as an individual. Only the patient knows the weight of this experience.

But, do you see the pieces of color and the strokes of beauty pushing into that sphere? I felt them, I wept months later when I recalled how close God chose to come to me in this exam. I treasure the mysteries of God, and one that overwhelms me over and over again is that when I have felt most alone, most scared, most human - I have simultaneously known Deepest Love, God, the Divine up close. Love that says, “I am with you,” and I show up most tangibly where you’d least expect it because I know you need me.

Stacking moments like these, one on top of another, make me call back to God with a deep sigh of rest:

Yes, you are mine - apart from you may I never be.

You, O Lord, are better than life.