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October 2nd, 2006

Intercessions

intercessions

I’ll add this to the main site for subscribers if anyone would like me to. I hesitated because I think it needs a title saying ‘intercessions’ or somesuch to make it clear what is going on.

Update: I don’t think it is that good a cartoon as most people who have seen it have looked at it a bit blankly.

It is, perhaps, something about public prayer in church. I don’t like prayers that go on and on and seem to be carefully crafted so as to be impressive in their content and delivery. That seems to me to violate principles such as that laid out in the sermon on the mount in Matthew 6 verse 5 for instance.

I’m not sure whether I find praying intercessions as we do in a standard anglican service very helpful anyway. Perhaps I engage more with something more creative, but then more creative approaches often bring forth cringing if they are not done well.

I am a hopeless case, that I realise.

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10 Responses to “Intercessions”


  1. Sam says:

    Mmm, nice. If it is what I think it is, maybe it could have an ‘amen.’ in the bottom right corner?

    Totally serene though :)

    October 2nd, 2006 at 12:52 pm
  2. jody says:

    is everyone asleep?

    October 2nd, 2006 at 1:43 pm
  3. Chris Clark says:

    I think for the first time I don’t get one of your cartoons. (Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, I’m deluded that I understood the others.)

    Perhaps your suggesting that it is important to listen as well as talk to God and that it is important to allow people to pray themselves as well as here the guy out from yacking on. …if I’m right could be a bit too close to home for me…

    October 2nd, 2006 at 4:03 pm
  4. Nefertiki says:

    Nice drawing and good idea to have some sort of a title, but maybe not just “Intercessions.” May I suggest title with few words of a couple of couple of prayers, such as, … Bishop of Kangalunga….., Her Majesty ……..

    Not that I know what I’m talking about.

    October 2nd, 2006 at 4:16 pm
  5. Dave says:

    Thanks for comments – please see my update above.

    October 2nd, 2006 at 4:27 pm
  6. Freedom Bound says:

    As an Anglican Priest I knew exactly what you were driving at before the explanation….. :-)

    October 2nd, 2006 at 6:24 pm
  7. maggi says:

    I admit that I “got it” instantly – if what you meant was that the endless streajm of words is ultimately an endless stream of words. It could as easily have been captioned “sermon” .. but made me long for the silence, the big spaces, the candles and music, that makes the endless stream of words stop. But I am a sad anglican of course

    October 2nd, 2006 at 11:04 pm
  8. John Davies says:

    I like this a lot, and read it as people being submerged in a sea of words. Which can be a bad thing (if they’re listening to all the words) or can be a good thing (if they’re using the space and time to be still a bit). So they’re either drowning or floating….. (either way it really makes no difference what the intercessor is saying!)

    October 3rd, 2006 at 10:57 am
  9. Leao16 says:

    Hi, after reading your update I think the cartoon is about when there are intercessions for something like the people of Palestine, a great thing in itself, and in stead of saying something simple like ‘We pray for the people of Palestine’ the person saying the prayers feels the need to fill the congregation in with the minute details of the Middle East conflict. They should save that kind of thing for another time like the sermon. Intercessions should be simple and childlike.

    October 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 pm
  10. p says:

    I like this possibly the most out of all of the cartoons so each to their own I guess. The intended meaning, about longfulness in prayer for the sake of it, I hadn’t picked up on straight away. I just saw it as a perfect image capturing the inertia of some parts of the church, the faith without actions thing. Much like people who follow each months new ‘The diet that’ll work for you’ while actually not doing the eating less and excercising more side of the scenario…

    ((Is the choice of the word Interceding there to show that people aren’t actually trying to get a word in edgeways? To point to the fact that more people aren’t intercesors than are?))

    So anyhow, lots of words and little meaning maybe that’s why I like it so much :) sums me up in a nutshell :) Like it loads though.. Not as smile inducing as some of the updates but certainly well up there in the thought provoking image that’ll stick in my mind for a good long time charts.

    October 5th, 2006 at 11:05 am