Would you like to stir-up your faith?
This gallery of fantastical designs, original and digital art, stories, poetry, and inde instrumental music might do the trick!
Join Will Brooke, Glauber Ribeiro, Jack Urban and friends as they use the tools of technology to explore faith in the King of kings through the poly-arts.
Welcome!
Thanks for visiting! Below is a collection of unique faith-based writing, art, and media projects. Here on Windwalker Art our dreamworlds meet the real world as our Spirit filled imaginations overlap ordinary life.
Scroll down to see a sample of original books, music, and visual pieces and view, listen, and read what happens when the living Word of God joins in the sandbox with His kids who love to create stuff.
Art and Faith
As an artist of faith, I’m continually hosted at a grand banquet of ideas, and the feast always satisfies. Yet sometimes, the blessings of heaven’s table overwhelm me with more inspiration than I can handle, so to keep my sanity I try to bless back—this is the kernel of the creative germ in me – a desire to love, as I have been loved.
I strive to be faithful to the ideas that come to me, but as is the case in everyday life, it gets complicated. In 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien quoted C.S. Lewis saying, “If they won’t write the kind of books we want to read, we shall have to write them ourselves.” And so I, and others like me, work feverishly to say words that haven’t been said, play unplayed music, tell stories untold, and form images that can only be found in the deepest caverns, or farthest reaches of space.
There is something in every person, whether they know it or not, that captures a little of the essence of God. The Imago Dia. This is the impetus for all creativity and desire to make, build, express, communicate, or in some cases fix things; like Jesus who entered the world to repair it’s brokenness and make everything new.
What you’ll find on these pages is amature art. Amature, not meaning lessor in quality, but
In my case, I respond to the One who has loved me with fresh acts of creation in service. Maybe your creation is cooking a meal, preparing a bouquet, speaking a kind word, telling a story, sharing a song, or orchestrating a creative playtime with a child. Another might paint a portrait, compose music, or write a book. It’s all wonderful! It’s all part of the plan to help us be happy and healthy in the time we have.
Sometimes, the creative options send us careening, overwhelmed with possibilities, but if we focus, persisting to give God the glory, the results will be simple unexpected beauty we couldn’t have experienced otherwise.
As you browse, try approaching each piece with the heart of a child, and anticipate that the gift is meant for you and crafted for your sole delight.
A timestream of the work:
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2025
Gilded Cross Tile Series
Six inch ceramic tiles with ornamental symbols and scrollwork.
2025
The Talking Stone
A Magically Real Fantasy
The Talking Stone: A Magically Real Fantasy is an exciting Middle-grade adventure novel for all ages. The story begins when an adventure seeking New York teenager is abducted into another world to help with a “rather delicate situation.”
Here’s what people are saying:
“What a fun, rip-roaring tale!” —Matt.
“Sparkles with warmth and wit.” —Carol.
“A delightful read! Sure to generate discussion around the character’s exploits.” —Bill.
“A great fantasy story for young adults!” —Joe.
“A Highly Complex, Imaginative World!” —Glauber.
“A Wonderful ‘Hero’s’ Journey!” —Ron.
“A Charming and Thought-Provoking Work!” —Anoill.
“A wonderful way to enjoy reading as a group!” —Helen
“Easy, Light-spirited Read!” —John.
“Full of surprises, humor, and action!” —Tom.
“Highly recommended—I read it twice!” —Cheri.
“Thoughtfully edifying!” —George.
2025
Awaiting Angels
Awaiting Angels is a 40 part daily flash series that runs during the season of Lent. The series features a daily imaginative snapshot paralleling Jesus’ fasting journey in the wilderness. Awaiting Angels is speculative and seeks to feel what Jesus felt, see what He saw, sense what He experienced and understand why the savior chose this journey for Himself.
2024
The Monday Moodle
The Monday Moodle was a 26 part series where every Monday featured a quote, poem, anecdote, or short encouraging blurb. It was hosted by the Everyday Amazed Substack.
2024
Everyday Amazed
Everyday Amazed is a Substack that features poetry, flash stories, and digital images aimed at inspiring viewers to grow in love for one another and God.
The stories, quotes, and poetry in Everyday Amazed have been written the old-fashioned way by people using hands, microphones, or keyboards sometimes beginning as scribbles on a napkin, a VM, scrap of paper, or journal entry that are transferred to digital for the final edits.
The images above are some that have been curated for Everyday Amazed. Some are gleaned from paid and free image services, friends, personal photographs, original digital art, and created with AI under the handle Windwalker using Midjourney. The prompts used to make the AI images are based on Bible verses, poetry, imaginative prose and then fine tuned using the rules and options using the programing language.
2024
Wellsprings: Hidden Glory
Hidden Glory is a luscious mix of piano, sonic dreamscapes, and passionate wind music. Perfect for background listening while driving, at work, play or just anytime.
This collection of musical pieces was crafted in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Glauber Ribeiro, experimental saxophonist, and a master of mesmerizing tones and timbers.
2023
Everyday Grace
Everyday Grace is a simple prayer book. Gorgeous photos highlight prayers for morning, mid-day prayers, evening prayers, and crafted prayers for those in need.
Everyday Grace’s prayers are practical and intended for everyday use. For the most part they tend to be less formal and intended as guides for talking to God as if He were a friend.
Included are prayers from modern and ancient saints and sages, prayers from the Bible, and from the ordinary faithful.
2022
40 Days With Jesus
Daily Imaginative Thoughts and Reflections for Lent
With reflection questions by Valerie Smith
Why must we wait?
Imagine …
At night, we wait for the morning. In loneliness, a friend. In toil or sickness, we wait for relief. Jesus’ forty-day fast was a time of waiting, and during that time, He became needy—just like we are. As you consider fasting during Lent, 40 Days with Jesus can take you on a daily, imaginative journey through your period of fasting and leads you home again to resurrection life.
Each daily text includes an illuminating scripture quote and a short speculative devotional, along with a few questions to stimulate further contemplation. 40 Days with Jesus inspires the more imaginative Everyday Amazed Substack series, Awaiting Angels.
2019
Small Talks with God
Small Talks With God combines narratives of contemporary God encounters and imaginative conversations with Jesus on the themes of: Identity, relationships, purpose, change, suffering, responsibility, and vision. Small Talks with God doesn’t hesitate to speak into uncomfortable issues, but does so, with sensitivity and Biblical wisdom. The anecdotes are griping and packed with emotion and in each, the love, power and wisdom of Jesus triumphs.
Small Talks with God contains topical and scriptural indices for easy reference. An excellent resource for listeners, counselors, spiritual directors, or individuals seeking a better understanding of how God loves people in the complexities of life. Small Talks with God is truly encouragement and healing from the heart of Jesus.
2019
Seek Ask, Find
Seek Ask Find is a morning prayer guide will help jumpstart anyone’s day. Twelve timeless prayers of the faith combined with contentemplative images help a reader focus each new morning centered on what’s what’s central in living a fruitful, prosperous, confident life – Jesus!
Seek Ask Find can be downloaded FREE at the link below. When quoting, please use the citations found at the back of the book.
2018
Backward down the Mountain
Backward down the Mountain is a captivating memoir follows an arrogant high-tech troubleshooter who unexpectedly encounters God and emerges forever changed. Picture Indiana Jones meeting Jesus, leading to wild, fun, and often heart-wrenching adventures. Filled with humor, suspense, miracles, travel, and extraordinary characters, Backward Down the Mountain takes readers on a quest to discover life’s greatest treasures: friends, family, honor, and faith.
Readers are saying: “I am changed.” “These adventures are extraordinary.” “A true page-turner.” “I devoured it during the first few days of winter break, and I loved it!” “Reading it was really fun and inspiring.”
Urban leads readers through the back streets of New Delhi and the sidewalks of New York, inside the ancient walls of Jerusalem, and across the expansive landscape of inner-city Chicago. He guides readers to the pristine woods of the Catskill River country, stunning ocean vistas, and other off-the-beaten-path destinations.
Imagine being trapped in a Soviet interrogation room or enduring a thrilling backward ride down a winding mountain road with no brakes. Think about the excitement of encountering bears up close in the wild or discovering a dark, mysterious treasure chamber within an ancient fort in New Delhi.
Backward Down the Mountain is brimming with courage, compassion, hope, and transformation. These stories reveal what can happen when an ordinary person chooses to open his eyes to a larger world and confronts the truth that his own worst enemy is himself.
2009
Through a Glass Dimly
Words are beautiful.
In many ways, they challenge us, inspire us, and thrill us as they propel us into grand vistas of meaning and story. But they are beautiful in another way, in the manner where shape, line, and form come together. The way they flow and relate to one another results in a beauty that transcends meaning. We are invited to look, not only comprehend but see, truly see, and let the power behind the words move you.
These dynamic designs are details from banners and wall panels that aim to inspire us to recognize that there is something more to life. This deeper meaning becomes a profound mystery and Spirit that surrounds us everywhere. This power and influence resides within us and extends far beyond our wildest dreams or knowledge.
2006
Wellsprings: Joyful
Wellsprings: Joyful is collection of organic piano and flute conversations between master improvisor Glauber Ribeiro and Jack Urban.
Gentle themes, familiar and new, weave through this inspiring and thoughtful selection.
Listen to Wellsprings joyful
2004
Butterflies in Snow
This collection of quiet instrumental songs was inspired by a hiaku poem Snowflakes and Butterfly Dreams by Chen-ou Liu
swirl of snowflakes…
I hold on
to a butterfly dreamButterflies in Snow embodies the warmth of the familiar and the freedom that comes with the willingness to rediscover unusual beauty in ordinary images. Liberating yet disarmingly honest, a listener will find this gentle music sonically accessible while layered in subtle sophistication.
2000
Manna: For the Deep Heart
The music of Manna provides a rest from clamor and invitation to drink from the fountain of mystery in God’s love.
Manna can mean “A gift”, or “What is it?, or the name of the miraculous food provided food for God’s people in their desert exodus.
The music of Manna was composed as a gift to a church whose people divided by cultural and theological tension. The music hopes to unite listeners to the thread of common human need—belonging.
2022
Wellsprings
Wellsprings is a timeless blend of instrumental themes of worship classics, hymns, spirited improvisation spontaneously captured in nearly a year of recording sessions.
The music of Wellsprings is gorgeously unique and wonderfully approachable akin to an aural garden where unexpected beauty surprises a listener at every turn.
This collection is the collaboration of Master flautist Glauber Ribeiro and composer Jack Urban whose Spirit filled relationship has birthed the Wellsprings trilogy: Wellsprings, Joyful, and Hidden Glory.
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