Broken Wide Whole

Broken Wide Whole: Prayers for Daily Living is a collection of 50 prayers and 34 watercolor works by artist and minister Suzanne L. Vinson. These prayers invite you to create a sacred pause in the art of daily living, to receive healing and care, and share that healing with the world through seeds of loving kindness.

Broken Wide Whole is available autographed and inscribed through Suzanne’s soul care business Silver Tree Art. Find it in the shop, here.

Broken Wide Whole felt like it was whispered from the deepest part of my being. Suzanne creates a conduit between the reader and the holy, connecting the two through the beauty of language and art. Her gentle, compassionate and intimate language seem to translate messages from my own soul. Her words are embedded in the garden of her artwork, like they are each a prayer blooming from the soil. Broken Wide Whole is a book that can be revisited again and again, the prayers and conversations taking on newer and deeper meanings with each read. This book instructs the reader how to have her own intimate conversation with God.

- Valley Haggard, author of The Halfway House for Writers and Surrender Your Weapons: Writing to Heal and curator of lifein10minutes.com

Ever since I first encountered Suzanne L. Vinson, I have recognized the stirrings of my own heart in her brushstrokes of watercolor paint. I have turned to her art in times of profound joy and aching sorrow; indeed, my sole tattoo was scripted by her hand. Now Suzanne pairs her art with prayers of such beauty, wisdom, and purity of spirit it seems I am praying again for the first time. This is a book for the weary ones, the old soul, the tender child within. This is a book to crack open at dawn, to consult at dusk, to reach for in the dark when sleep is elusive. Broken Wide Whole is a gift.

- Rev. Katherine Willis Pershey, Associate Minister of First Congregational Church of Western Springs

A deep yes to suzanne l. vinson's Broken Wide Whole. Her profound words and whimsical art are a wake-up call for the spirit and a balm for the heart. In the exhale of each prayer is the vibration of compassion-- for self, for other, for the human condition. suzanne shows us how to hold the pain and the joy of living as she embraces the mystery of each moment, each unfolding of truth. She invites us to let go, let in, take action, and take rest... and she reminds us of the divinity that lives within, around, and beyond us. This book is a pure offering of hope, gratitude, and wonder... a treasure for the human journey.

- Nicki Peasley, author of Ellipsis