Day 42 - June 4

Authors: The guests and hosts of a party celebrating Monica Redfern's 8th grade graduation:  The Palmers, Eldredges, Kinasts, Redferns, Rileys, Hoggs, Civettas, Fitzmaurices, Myrens, Dooleys, Moores, Johnsons, Andersons, Cooks, Hostickas, Zacharias, Loves, and a few other families as well.

Location: Ringwood, IL

Date: June 4, 2011

Parish.... Church of Our Saviour

   the world of our community

Heaven is an enormous box of chalk and lots of friends drawing on a silo.

Day 41 - June 3

Authors: Jullians
Location: Greenleaf & Sheridan
Date: June 3, 2011
Parish: Episcopal Service Corps - Jullian Year


Heaven - where hugs last more than 3 seconds.

Day 40 - June 2

Author: Josh Frank
Location: Ashland and Greenleaf which is along the sidewalk outside of Eugene Field Elementary School
Date: June 2, 2011
Parish: The Porch (an emerging church conversation that just started in Rogers Park)

Inspiration: Isaiah 2:4

Other notes: when I considered the theme, I kept coming back to images of peace, reconciliation, and all things being put to right. I considered a beautiful hillside with a majestic tree overlooking fields of grains, but then I had two thoughts: it seemed a little too idyllic and passive; and I am not that strong of a chalk artist! Soon after, this passage from Isaiah sprung to mind. While I strongly believe Rogers Park gets a bad rap for being violent and crime-ridden (hard statistics don't bear this image out; our wonderfully diverse neighborhood is at worst very middle of the pack in the city), we have experienced a few violent and deadly crimes in the last few weeks.

Hopefully the message of this temporary piece of art will last in some random viewer's heart and mind long after the rains wash it away.

Day 38 - May 31

Authors: COS Youth
Location: Church of Our Saviour
- 530 W Fullerton
Date: May 31, 2011
Parish: Church of Our Saviour

When we've been there ten thousand years

bright shining as the sun. We've no less days
to sing God's praise then when we first begun.

Heaven is taking delight in simple games.

Love Family
Love Cake
Love Fun
Love Friends
Love Pets






In the end we will all be reunited











 To see the world in a grain of sand







People are most beautiful when they are happy and laughing (in my opinion)








Turn hatred to water and let it slip through our hands















And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that light the way are blinding




 Sky is womb and she's the moon

Day 39 - June 1

Authors: Karen M, Richard M., Alice W.

Location: All Saints Episcopal Hermitage & Wilson

Date: June 1, 2011

Parish:  All Saints Episcopal
     Church of Our Saviour
     Hemenway United Methodist Church

 







Our separateness 

is an illusion