The following introduction video is now available on my Blue Eye Art YouTube Podcast Channel.
Made Prayer, an artistic spiritual process
By Nate Long “Owl”
Hello, my name is Nate Long and I wrote Made Prayer during the summer of 2023, publishing it in December, just before the holidays. Before this, I would consistently be asked “what do you do?” and I always had a similar answer that was long and unwieldy, about being an artist, author, musician, spiritual practitioner, ceremonialist, and the list would go on. So I did what I do and asked Spirit “what do I do?” And the answer: “I create with sacred intention, whether through art, song, ceremony, or story. And in so doing I BECOME the prayer-maker.”
The Made Prayer is a process of creating something tangible and even physical, to make prayer more real and approachable, with an answer to the prayer more grounded and achievable.
I am sharing this with anyone who may feel disconnected from the Spiritual and to those who are looking for a meaning and purpose behind their passion for creation.
I desire to share this process with others as it can become a seed of change, new perspective, and healing, all of which I have witnessed in the most intimate of ways within my own work.
This idea is not a new one for many people, artists and non-artists alike. And there is no greater joy for me, personally, than to witness their discovery of this process and how they now have a way to define what it is that they have been doing all along.
When I was a boy, I was attracted to the idea of personifying the natural world, giving things a name, and having conversations and relationships with trees, animals, and the earth.
Then I thought I needed to “grow up.” In the last twelve years, however, I have undergone an internal perspective change to recognize that this same boyhood spirituality was exactly where I needed to be in this adult world.
The Made Prayer emerged from this realization.
This is my Journey,
— Nate Long “Owl”
The Made Prayer Book is currently available in paperback, hardback, and ebook from Amazon with an Audible book to be released in the near future.
Visit the Made Prayer page on Blue Eye Art.
Join the conversation and follow the Made Prayer Facebook page where you are invited to post the Made Prayers you make, as well!