A person who ‘writes’ icons follows the tradition of iconographers of old and continues the semantic or symbolic language of long ago. Icons are painted with many layers of paint and prayer. It is a contemplative rather than a creative endeavor. Like my creative work, there is the opportunity to get lost in the visual process but this has a more obvious spiritual focus. These are all ‘by the hand of Virginia Wieringa’. Most of these are traditional icons, where patterns and designs are used exactly as they have been for many years. Icons are devotional images that have been used for centuries to remind people of faith of saints that have gone before. They have been called windows into heaven or sacred doorways into the Divine. They invite the viewer to be still. They are encounters with the timeless, the eternal and the Holy. An icon is not an object of worship, but an opportunity to join with the great cloud of witnesses that eternally worships God and to join our prayers and praises with theirs. They are not unlike snapshots that we have around our homes to remind us of loved ones.