+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about this work +++++
"Nothing is so elusive as time. To capture even an hour is a precious gift.
As the poet William Blake reminds us, an hour spent in meditation provides
a glimpse of eternity. We look to The Garden of Prayer for such sweet
repose, and in The Hour of Prayer, third in this devout series, I believe
we find it.
The Hour of Prayer anticipates the dawning of a Peaceful
Kingdom where a brilliant sun pours down into the sylvan glade that shelters
the sundial; the passage of its shadow across the dial marks the breathless
hour of prayer. A lively brook murmurs nature's prayer into the silence as it
nurtures a graceful willow tree, whose overhanging branches suggest the
comforting embrace of God.
In the Peaceful Kingdom, time will be no more and prayer will be a direct
communion with the divine. Until then, we must content ourselves with such
glimpses of immortality as can be found in The Garden of Prayer,
which exists in the hearts of the faithful."
~~Thomas Kinkade
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