Through collective, mindful focus on these words and art, we can increase and uplift our collective energy of loving kindness, compassion, and love. We begin with ourselves and grow outward from our hearts' center. In doing so, we create portals.

You will receive my newest publication, hot off the press. Choose your desired BUNDLE — you’ll receive the book along with a set of 8 postcards, 4.25×5.5 inches, and/or an illumination deck — set 1, set 2, or both — 3×4.25 inches on 80 pound cover paper with rounded corners. Mailed in a rigid mailer.

All books will be signed. Please fill out the form for any additional inscription(s) desired.

Postcards feature the book cover and the 7 days of the week within the book.

Illumination Decks — Sets 1 & 2 — feature lines & imagery on one side and mantras with their portal on the opposite side. Printed in full color on both sides. Each set is a unique set of 52 cards + cover card and back card. The sets can be combined. The Illumination Decks are a lovely companion to the book, providing one or two lines on one card to place your focus along with a mantra. You can use them independently of the book or alongside.

How do I choose which deck? You can simply pick by number OR you can read the following and be guided by which set of phrases speak most to you in this moment ::

Included in Illumination Deck 1 :: “May my thoughts be gentle.”
“My energy serves me today and I am grateful. The day is filled with the raw beauty of humanity and all that entails.”
“I bring attention to my body and the rest it needs.”

Included in Illumination Deck 2 :: “With intention, courage, and purpose, I awaken to this day.”
“May I be wise in the way I share my energy, presence, and heart this day.”
“I notice lightly each sensation and release each emotion and thought as often as needed.”

Portals: Prayers from Waking Until Rest provides artwork, mantra, and 4 Prayers: Upon Waking, Midday, Evening, and Before Rest for each day of the week. You are invited to use these prayers in your days as a way to express loving kindness to yourself and the world. Written by Artist, Minister, and Guide Rev. Suzanne L. Vinson.

Portals has been a project of love. A product of living these questions: What if we decided how we wanted to move ourselves from now to next? What if we can choose the energy we carry and share? These are the questions held these prayers were written. Suzanne shares, "I pray these prayers on the trails. I pray them between the happenings in my day. I hold the words and the words hold me - reminding me how I want to be in the world moving from now to next. Reminders are always a must for me, and praying in color and word grants me that attention to care. I invite you to use these in your daily life and your natural rhythms, whatever that looks like for you. You can use this book daily as it has been written, praying four times over the course of a day. You can choose at random and pray what speaks to you in the moment. You can pray all the prayers at once in a day. There's no one way to pray. I have written these as four places in our day to pause and send our hope and care as prayer into the world."

By praying, we open ourselves up to the Divine, to hope, and perhaps hope in the Divine. We open ourselves up to change from the inside out. We invite ourselves into the shape of things as they are and as they will be. We participate in living life in the moments of the now and the next. We usher in belonging, trusting our presence in this time and place and looking to invite goodness into the lives of all. Portals can be an entrance or addition to a daily prayer or meditation practice. Perhaps these prayers can be the entrance to portals of our making, too.

A visual is shared for each day so that you can pray beyond words and so that you can invite the words into the imagery. You create an experience as you engage with image and text through your heart and action. Consider painting or creating your own visuals, too. You become a portal as you engage your heart throughout your days. You create space for healing within and to engage with the world around you. You shift your energy and light and thus impact a wider world - as you are, and as you are becoming. Portals: Prayers from Waking Until Rest can be a balm, a tool for equilibrium, and a guide.