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Available
Description
This new prayer form can take as little or as much time as you have or want to commit. Any time of the day. Drawing is half the prayer, the other half is transporting the visual memories or actual images with you to pray throughout the day.
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LibraryThing member judithrs
Praying in Color; Drawing a New Path to God. Sybil MacBeth. 2007. How could I resist a book with this title? The author is the wife of an Episcopal priest and a math instructor who encourages you to pray while you draw items or copy Bible verses, prayers and quotations that remind you of people you
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want to pray for. She maintains this helps you remember what or who you want to pray for all during the day. She is encouraging and laid back and maintains anyone can do this. I am intrigued, and will try it. I am especially interested in her section on “Praying with the Scriptures using Lectio Divina,” as there is always a section of scripture in Magnifcat for Lectio Divina. Show Less
LibraryThing member patl
This is a fun and creative - and surprisingly profound - look at praying for other people in a different way. The author, a right-brained (math teacher), finds a way to express prayer in left-brained (doodling) activity. I loved it.
It's an easy read; I started it waiting for my bus to arrive and
This would be a great one for people who are just bored or stuck with rote prayer, but who want to find a way to pray simply and effectively.
It's an easy read; I started it waiting for my bus to arrive and
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finished it before the bus commute was over. I found that I highlighted and made a lot more notes than I expected to, and the book spun off some other ideas about creative forms of prayer expression.This would be a great one for people who are just bored or stuck with rote prayer, but who want to find a way to pray simply and effectively.
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ISBN
1557255121 / 9781557255129