"Life-as-Prayer".....
Beadwork by Jennie Lee
Helping you to practice present moment
awareness, Jennie Lee creates non-traditional prayer beads, or blessing
beads, to inspire
you to ground your personal spiritual beliefs into a tangible practice
of mindfulness. Made of all natural materials...bone, wood, gemstone,
nuts, seeds, there are four styles and each piece is unique, never to be
duplicated.
Following is the invocation from the card
given with each piece. It is printed on beautiful recycled paper made of
grass and flowers. The beads themselves come in a jute drawstring bag.
In the creation process of this beadwork, each element was infused with a
prayer—for peace, for healing, for joy, for forgiveness, for
understanding—on and on… Made of all natural materials, each prayer piece
is unique and each bead on the string is different from the next, just as
in Life, each moment is different from the last. Our experience shapes us,
teaches us. We add colors, dimensions, dreams. In using these beads in our
own unique way, we add our prayers to the Universal prayer energy,
remembering our special essence as part of the Sacred Mystery of Oneness.
The word bead derives from the Anglo-Saxon word bede
(“prayer”). Two thirds of the world’s people use prayer beads to
experience the spiritual in the physical realm. They are like a portable
altar, for indeed the sacred is always inside us and we only need to go
inward to remember that. The beads call us to present moment practice,
stillness, and acceptance of what IS…right here…right now.
Every prayer is a first step toward manifestation.
By nature, prayer is imagining, visioning, surrendering. Prayer is being
willing, not knowing, waiting, listening. Prayer is an open heart longing
and a grateful soul remembering. It is communion with the Oneness and awe
of the Mystery. Prayer is all and nothing. Prayer is the unknowable
wondering.
Use these beads, and all the loving
energy that comes with them, to imagine your life more magnificent than
you ever have before, and watch the Mystery manifest.
With joyful and abundant blessings,
Jennie Lee
DESIGN STYLES
NECKLACE
(approx. 15" long, easy to
slip over your head)
$90
BRACELET
(stretchy, so fits anyone)
$35
HANG-ABLE or HAND-HELD design
(approx. 15" long with
amulet on end)
$50
PRAYER "SHAWL"
(approx. 42" from end to
end; wearable or hang-able design with
loops on either end that
hold special amulets)
$125
Custom pieces are available upon request, incorporating stones,
totems or family heirlooms of special significance. If I am custom making,
I usually ask for a sense of the person they are for,
any special things they like, and their name so that I can weave the piece
intuitively for their energy style.
"Thank you so much for the beautiful custom Kwan Yin prayer shawl. It
is truly beautiful and something I will treasure always. The lotus bead
is stunning....it is my logo and personal symbol. " Mary Stewart, Feng
Shui Boston
Creative Ideas for “Life-as-Prayer” Beads
Use
daily to “count your blessings”
Give as
wedding or shower gift with your special prayers
Hang
near your workspace to remind yourself to breathe
Give to
someone in need of healing
Send
prayers of peace with each bead into the world
Give to
a parent or teacher, letting each bead represent something you learned
from them
Use in
the practice of forgiveness of self and others
Give as
a baby gift with dreams for the child’s life
Send to
a soldier with prayers of protection
Give as
a coming of age or graduation gift with your blessings
Carry
in your pocket to be aware of the present moment
Give to
a friend letting each bead represent something you appreciate about them
Infuse
them with your dreams and wear them as a reminder that dreams really do
come true.
