Praying Hands Notecard

This Note Card features the image displayed at the "Transforming the Heart" workshop's Encounter with Art. It comes with a matching envelope. The Story Behind Praying Hands "Praying Hands" was originally a sculpture, created many years ago by artist Mark DeRaud. One night during a personal crisis, he was mad at God and took the sculpture down and dumped it in the trash. After a few minutes, he repented for what he had done and ran down to retrieve it, but it was gone. Years later, Mark created an oil painting of Jesus holding a man in agony, with Jesus' praying hands covering over the man's praying hands. While the painting was waiting to be framed at a local frame shop, a person who entered the shop and saw the painting and began to weep, not knowing why they were so touched. This painting was sold to a doctor who had it hanging in his office in New York City. He used it for a cover design for his book on healing. A few years after that, the latest and final image was painted in mixed