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  The uplifting release which transpires from the expressionistic, mixed media process applied to a playing card quickly calls forth playful creativity. After a brief period, the cards are passed to another participant who will add the next layers of creative expression. On the third and final pass to another person words and finishing touches are added. This collaborative, the the artistic process is the catalyst that builds accord between each other.  In the end, something incredible results!  Encouragement, amazement, freedom, tears, and surrender surface from letting the pain out and hope to emerge from within.  Hope

The funny thing is, until just now when I looked up who the artist was so I could credit the above quote, I honestly never knew the word was “bread.”  You see, as I listened to my husband and the group sing, I heard “Fill me up, breath of heaven, fill me.”  I wonder if I didn’t make the mistake because subconsciously, I knew I needed breath.  I wanted so badly to be filled with breath.  At that time I was on the lung transplant waiting list due to end-stage pulmonary disease caused by cystic fibrosis.  Cystic fibrosis is a...