Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God (Active Prayer)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557255121 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 110 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Frustrated by a laundry list of what she calls "prayer dilemmas," and the unfortunate situations of more than half a dozen friends and family members on her "critical prayer list," MacBeth, a math professor by trade, spent an afternoon doodling before she realized she'd in fact spent the afternoon in prayer. As she takes particular care to emphasize, this method most effective for intercessory prayer, but adaptable for other approaches requires absolutely no skill, merely a desire to connect with God. She even includes a chapter on using one's computer for the process. "Just as Julia Cameron, in The Artist's Way, showed the hardened Harvard businessman he had a creative artist lurking within, MacBeth makes it astonishingly clear that anyone with a box of colors and some paper can have a conversation with God. (Readers should therefore ignore any lingering self-doubt planted by a first grade art teacher.) Amid gentle per
Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractable or impatient soul, or a word-weary pray-er. "For many of us, using only words to pray reduces God by the limits of our finite words." For more information, including author events, examples and contact information to request Sybil MacBeth to do a workshop, visit prayingincolor.Use Praying in Color to help with: lectio divina memorizing Scripture prayers for discernment creating a personal Advent or Lenten calendar. Maybe you hunger to know God better. This prayer form can take as little or as much time as you have or want to commit, from 15
March said Out of the box prayer!. I don't really have trouble finding the words to pray, in general. But I thought that this book might work with folks who are more artistically inclined, and that they could express themselves in drawing as opposed to using words. I purchased it to give to a friend who has a heart for prayer. I read it when it first arrived and tried the suggestions. Here's the surprising and unexpected experience I had in using these suggestions. A few days after reading through the book I was praying for someone that I've been praying for for years. They've been struggling and I've been struggling right along with them. For so long a ti. need to hear more from God I really appreciate that this book helps the reader explore creativity in prayer. The book's subtitle is "Drawing a New Path to God" and in many ways it can help create that. I have been struggling with prayer and had been eyeing this book for several months before I bought it. The idea of using colors and drawings in place of words was very appealing to me.For the most part, this book helps the reader find new ways to pray for the long list of people that has been accumulated, and for whom the reader is either uncertain how to pray or doesn't know what to pray anymore. If you need a new way to pray for your list, then th. I'm sure this book would be great for some people I'm sure this book would be great for some people. The one thing that it has been valuable for me . it has given me inspiration in regard to a new way of journaling, and other long hand types of studying that I do. Not really doing the recommendations in the book, but it was worth the money to spur the imagination.