Divine Tree

This is beautiful, not only spiritually but aesthetically. The time to make and place them is a healing activity which is important for us all.

"Thousands of wooden prayer tablets, ema, hang outside Meiji Jingu, a Shinto shrine. Japanese are not normally religious, but during times of crisis they often revert back to traditional beliefs. Prayers for disaster victims and the nuclear crisis are written and hung around a divine tree. In a special ceremony, Shinto priests burn the prayers as an offering." // Susie Rain