Byzantine Icons: Narrative Messages and Interpretation is an 88-page book that incorporates 36 full-color plates of my paintings, a collection of contemporary iconography inspired by classic Byzantine style iconography, painted using the traditional egg tempera technique. It is an old-world painting process mixing egg yolk and ancient earth pigments, and perfect for expressing religion and spirituality.  The Catholic practice of art and iconography is a visual language about God that comes alive in color and texture through practice, patience, and living tradition is always in a process of responsive development that holds together, in lesser or greater tension, the past and the present. The living tradition of Christian theology is always open to new possibilities, insights, perspectives, and careful, faithful editing. This book, Byzantine Icons: Narrative Messages and Interpretation, invites the reader to read a visual language and seek its meaning and message. On the one hand, it is a conventionally written icon image based on a biblical text of words. On the other hand, the reader or viewer is invited to explore religion through storytelling and enter the icon. The forty images, colors, and shapes engage the viewer with the Byzantine narrative put forth and provoke a surprising response to what you see as you ponder the image. Byzantine iconography contains a powerful narrative in color, texture, and style. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words and in this case a thousand meditations. Mary Jane Miller points to the knowledge and truth of God who created you in God’s image and likeness, redeems you in your very humanness, and raises you into the new life of grace through the Son in the Spirit. May you find the infinite Mystery of God for you and with you…you who are beloved utterly by God. The story written in these icons is, finally, a love story. It is the story of God’s love for us that gives us life and empowers us to live it in all its wonder.