Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God

This book is a lovely kinesthetic way for a right-brain, creative, perfectionistic person to pray. I got it several years ago and have enjoyed the freedom I’ve found in praying with my extensive marker collection.

The picture isn’t the book cover, but rather a prayer painting my friend who works in Kyrgzstan created for me on my last birthday. She wrote: “As I was painting it dawned on me that it was a huge Praying in Color painting. The the themes that came up were Joy (Like Phillipians- rejoice in the Lord always) Happiness, Wholeness, Health, Identity and Seasons. I pray that it will bring an atmosphere of contentment, happiness and peace into your home.”

Jesus Calling

by Sarah Young
Amazon: 4.8 rating with 710 reviews

Decades ago for Christmas, my mother gave me, and the other women of the family, paperback copies of God Calling. Her copy was well-worn and had a home on a shelf in the bathroom. My bathrooms never had shelves, but over the years, my copy too became well-worn from years of inspiration and comfort, which is why I was drawn to Jesus Calling. The gentle teal drew me in even more and once I touched the soft leatherette cover, I couldn’t help but buy it–I love texture. I wasn’t disappointed by the contents either. One morning at church I noticed a mother of three girls who had a children’s version. I commented that I really like mine. Her young daughter said, “I like it too, because it always seems like it’s talking about something in my life that I’m going through right then.”