As part of our efforts to make SCC accessible to all, we celebrated Access Sunday on October 12th with guest Candace Low, a consultant and member of the Southern New England Disability Ministry Team. Her Photograph and Scriptural Text Reflections in her “Dances with the Divine Exhibit” will remain set up in the Lounge for several more weeks. Come and see it, and all of the different ways we have been working to make our church welcoming to everyone.

About the Dances with the Divine Photography Exhibition

Candace began using photography as a contemplative practice during COVID after a diagnosis of mental illness. She is a survivor of an acquired brain injury which caused multiple disabilities including deafness and practices the art of receiving and sacred seeing to change the way we see the world including disability.

Dance has accompanied religious ceremonies and sacred rites since the birth of human civilizations. Dance is an important part of rituals, celebrations, and entertainment. The Torah, the Psalms, other parts of the Bible, and other scriptures reference dance as celebration, worship, social dance with friends, lovers dance, metaphors, and personal expression with the Divine. Dance tells a story. In Dances with the Divine, Candace Low uses the reference to dance and dance steps to explain her personal journey and connections with the Divine in her life.

Dances with the Divine is an album of photos and reflections that explores Candace’s journey of learning to live with mental illness, disabilities and finding a path to wholeness of the spirit through the art of photography as a contemplative practice. Each time she looks through the lens, she frames a moment in time, and within that moment, she discovers holiness. The camera is a portal to the practice of receiving, sacred seeing, and the art of beholding. Life is a dance, and the Divine is her dance partner.