Art & Wisdom Card Decks
Find strength, deepen peace, practice courage.
Invest in your own spiritual practice, use as a tool with clients, or open conversations together in community.
Contents of each deck: 40 Art & Wisdom Cards and guide booklet.
Size: 3.5 x 5, printed with care on high-quality, long-lasting varnished cardstock in Maine, USA.
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Three decks
NEW Brave Joy Deck: Intentions to strengthen your spirit and stretch your heart. For clarity, courage, and connection.
Come Through Deck: Invitations for practicing courage and following guidance or intuition.
Deep Breath Deck: Invitations for deepening inner peace, presence, and wisdom.
Each deck includes 40 full-color cards and a guide booklet with practical, welcoming spirituality and prompts for practice.
Friendly 3.5 x 5 inch size.
See deck images below.
Sample booklet pages from Deep Breath, Come Through, and Brave Joy
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A few ways to use these Art & Wisdom Cards:
If you need support, feel stuck, or your heart is closing, ask for help and choose a card.
Notice what feels resonant or useful for you.
If a bit of guidance would affirm or stir your inner knowing, pull a card. Ask yourself how it relates. Trust your gut response.
If you and a client or friend want to spark a conversation, pick cards together. Talk about what you see, feel, and know.
If the deck nourishes your spiritual practice, pull daily or as needed. Write in your journal, pray, carry an image or phrase in your heart.
If you like juicy questions, try asking a few like these, after you choose a card:
What does this mean for my life right now?
How can I and my community embody this?
What one small step can I take?
What can we do together?
What’s keeping me from engaging this?
How might I begin, or continue, to heal?
Is there another deeper layer to explore?
If you're feeling curious, discover your own way to enjoy the decks!
Appreciation for Listen For Joy Art & Wisdom Card Decks
Let me tell you how much I appreciate your beautiful art work and the booklet of accompanying reflections and practices. I meditate every morning and have been praying with one of the images every day.
--CK, Carbondale PA
They are a great tool, and parishioners keep talking about how the images speak to them. Thank you!
--SL, Annapolis MD
I'm grateful for your art's important role in my pandemic life.
--LB, Durham NC
My clients *love* these,
and it always takes us deeper in any session. Thank you SO much!
--ES, Vancouver WA
I think the day is coming when spiritual directors will not be able to imagine their work without your cards as a necessary tool. The experiences with my directees are powerful, meaningful and bring them so close to a loving divine Presence.
--TH, Alberta, Canada
[Drawing a card] doesn’t take a lot of time, but it gives a lot.
--MG, Chevy Chase MD
Your cards go beyond a specific faith tradition to the core what it means to be a person of faith and the things that often prevent us from being able to trust, believe, hope, and love.
--KJ, Philadelphia PA
Visual art is often hard for me to connect with—and yet in the wholeness of your approach, I find myself challenged and taken deeper. The cards are a daily lifeline and I’d love to see a new deck!
--Anon
We used your art cards as the final prompt [in a writing retreat]. We each chose a card to find out what it was we still needed to write this weekend. The writing went deep and was beautiful. One young woman said to me afterward, “I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to write, but as soon as I saw the image, I knew.”
--ES, Amherst MA
The cards are a great way in to begin to connect with the movement of the Holy. Thank you!
--CR, British Columbia, Canada
From the booklet introductions
NEW Brave Joy deck introduction:
How many conversations can this box hold?
40 art cards and 56 booklet pages hold 5 years of my creative conversation with Spirit, Earth, climate change, illness, beauty, amazement, poetry, art-making, a snail mail community, a web of trust, my wife, friends, and me. And now, you can pull up a chair at our big kitchen table and draw a Brave Joy card to join in.
I hope you’ll feel a welcome in these deck images and pages, a kind of home where we can risk more tenderness and courage. But let me say it now: Every single phrase in this booklet is easier said than done, and the images dare us to respond. The invitations given in the words and art are meant to get us talking, to our souls and to each other.
For myself, I intend to use this deck to help me stay awake, curious, and engaged. Clearly, we’re in for a transformative ride in coming years. As my friend Jo said, so many of us are wondering what to do and how to keep our hearts open. When there’s all this heartbreak and all this beauty, maybe art and practices can encourage us to show up and go deep. Let’s find out.
From Come Through & Deep Breath deck introductions:
This art can’t wait to spend time with you, ask you good questions, and give you a boost when you’re struggling and need to remember hope and joy. I know this because they’ve been so good to me and my students, clients, and friends over the years.
Personally, I often draw a card with prayerful intention when I feel unsure, frustrated, or afraid, to see what message I receive. With a client in a listening session, we might pick an image and wonder about how it relates to their spiritual journey. In a group, I sometimes invite each person to choose a card and tell a story about what they see and feel.
I believe these art & wisdom cards want meet new people and start fresh conversations about things that matter. Where will you take them? Maybe they’ll visit homes, dorm rooms, places of worship, retreat centers, schools, hospitals, prisons, office buildings, or even halls of government.
And how will you use them? Maybe once a year for a retreat session, once a month in a book group, once a week to give away to a loved one, or once a day as a personal writing prompt. You and the art cards will find so many ways to engage each other.
--Melanie