Rustic Prayer Wall
Come pray at our prayer wall, an installation in St. Joseph's Chapel, to the left of the altar. Write the prayer that is in your heart, for healing, or gratitude, the prayer that perhaps you struggle to put into words. Leave it in the chink line between the logs. A member of the Prayer and Healing Team will collect the prayers weekly, pray them for you, and burn them, sending them to God. The wall was built by Will Davenport as an offering to the people of St. John's.
See Will's reflection below.
When we pray, where is the place in which we pray? Is it a fixed location such as in our church pews, during a service, or in the columbarium with members of our Prayer and Healing Team? Or are we on the move when we pray? Such as on a hike, paddling on the river, or as we drive through Jackson Hole on any given summer afternoon. I know that I am a creature of habit, and as I age, I get more fixed in my routines including where I pray, when I pray, and if I pray. Recently members of our Prayer and Healing Team came up with another place to pray, at our version of the Western Wall, modeled after the “slightly larger“ Western Wall in Jerusalem. Considered a holy place by multiple religions, there has been a custom of writing prayers on small slips of paper and inserting them into the cracks of the wall. Our wall, 6’2” tall versus 62 feet tall and logs not rocks, is designed to bless the whole community of faith with a memorable and unique prayer opportunity. Small sheets of paper will be provided for you to write a prayer and then fold up and placed into a crack in the wall. These anonymous prayers will be removed by members of our Prayer and Healing Team, and prayed over at the end of each Sunday service. We all have our different ways and places in which we pray. Writing things down and having our prayers read may help us to become more of a praying church and faith community.
