“Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus”

Get comfortable, breathe, clear your mind, and ask God to be with you in this time of prayer. Ask God to speak to you through this image.

Let your eyes pause and focus on the part of the image they’re first drawn to. Look at just that part of the image for a minute or two.

Now look at the whole image.

• Is there a word that comes to mind as you look at it

• What thoughts or questions does this image raise?

• What emotions do you feel?

• Does a name for God come to mind? A scripture?

• What title would you give this piece?

Pray through the words, images, emotions, questions, and thoughts that came up for you. Rest in God’s presence, trusting that God is with you even if you don’t “feel” it

As you step out of prayer and into your week,

continue to watch for God. Notice where Jesus is at work in the world, “hidden in plain sight.”

For more information about this piece, see below

• About the artist

  Regarded as the greatest Spanish artist of his time, Diego Velázquez began his career in his native Seville and later became the leading artist at the court of King Philip IV in Madrid.

• About This Piece

  This painting is widely considered to be Velázquez’s earliest known work. The artist painted Christ appearing to his disciples at Emmaus in the left background. In the foreground he depicted a Moorish servant working in the kitchen. The inversion of the religious and the worldly subjects was inspired by Flemish painters, including Pieter Aertsen.