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Count Your Blessings in Color
Try counting your blessings in color!
There is now scientific evidence that that simple act of regularly counting your blessings (big and small) will help you to become a more content, healthy and happy person! This coloring book from bestselling author Sybil MacBeth is a perfect path to gratitude for individuals, families and groups. Includes quotes that will inspire your life from Henri Nouwen, Maya Angelou, Shauna Niequist, St. Teresa of Avila and more.
“Readers of all ages, experience, and religions will find this a fresh, invigorating and even exhilarating way to spend time with themselves and their Creator.” — Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review
There is now scientific evidence that that simple act of regularly counting your blessings (big and small) will help you to become a more content, healthy and happy person! This coloring book from bestselling author Sybil MacBeth is a perfect path to gratitude for individuals, families and groups. Includes quotes that will inspire your life from Henri Nouwen, Maya Angelou, Shauna Niequist, St. Teresa of Avila and more.
“Readers of all ages, experience, and religions will find this a fresh, invigorating and even exhilarating way to spend time with themselves and their Creator.” — Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review
64 pages, Paperback
Published November 8, 2016
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June 26, 2017
I am a big fan of Sybil MacBeth's Praying in Color method (Or Praying in Black and White if you happen to be a masculine soul). It involves using drawings and colored pencils (or markers and crayons) to sort of mindmap your devotional life—intercessory prayer, Lectio Divina, prayers of gratitude, etc. It is a perfect way to focus, for those of us who's mind wanders during prayer. Prayers are captured in journals, sketchbooks and on graph paper. A record of our doodled devotion. My wife has used this same method in children's ministry, teaching kids to draw their prayers.
While I have benefitted from Macbeth's method, I can, at times, be distracted by it. For the artistically inclined (or in my case, reclined), drawing prayers can draw us away from the heart of true prayer, when we focus on the quality of our drawings instead of the prayer we are praying (Macbeth's notes the struggles artists have with this method in a parenthetical note in Praying in Black and White).
Macbeth and Paraclete Press have produced a new series of "Praying in Color" coloring books. Like other coloring books that Paraclete has produced, there are scriptures, quotations and other prompts on the left-hand pages, and a coloring sheet on the right-hand page. The difference is the right-hand pages reproduce the sort of 'mindmap' patterns which MacBeth uses in her Praying in Color books and workshops. The result is a simple, accessible way to appropriate her method in our own personal prayer times. Because the form is already given, it minimizes some of the artist's distraction.
There are several volumes of these coloring books, corresponding to different ways of praying. Count Your Blessings in Color is a chance to express gratitude. With prompts from scripture and quotes (from novelists, spiritual writers, and other luminaries), we are instructed to use these images to 'count our blessings,' creating a visual reminder of the what we have received.
Unlike most adult coloring books, the pages of each of this coloring book become a sort of spiritual journal as we pray and count our blessings. As with MacBeth's other Praying in Color books, there is no right way to use these coloring books or preferred method. This is simply a format to help you dive deeper into the land of prayer. Users of these coloring books will find a nice balance between set formats and creative freedom.
This coloring book is great for personal use or as a gift. I give it five stars. -★★★★★
Notice of material connection: I received copies of the coloring books from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
While I have benefitted from Macbeth's method, I can, at times, be distracted by it. For the artistically inclined (or in my case, reclined), drawing prayers can draw us away from the heart of true prayer, when we focus on the quality of our drawings instead of the prayer we are praying (Macbeth's notes the struggles artists have with this method in a parenthetical note in Praying in Black and White).
Macbeth and Paraclete Press have produced a new series of "Praying in Color" coloring books. Like other coloring books that Paraclete has produced, there are scriptures, quotations and other prompts on the left-hand pages, and a coloring sheet on the right-hand page. The difference is the right-hand pages reproduce the sort of 'mindmap' patterns which MacBeth uses in her Praying in Color books and workshops. The result is a simple, accessible way to appropriate her method in our own personal prayer times. Because the form is already given, it minimizes some of the artist's distraction.
There are several volumes of these coloring books, corresponding to different ways of praying. Count Your Blessings in Color is a chance to express gratitude. With prompts from scripture and quotes (from novelists, spiritual writers, and other luminaries), we are instructed to use these images to 'count our blessings,' creating a visual reminder of the what we have received.
Unlike most adult coloring books, the pages of each of this coloring book become a sort of spiritual journal as we pray and count our blessings. As with MacBeth's other Praying in Color books, there is no right way to use these coloring books or preferred method. This is simply a format to help you dive deeper into the land of prayer. Users of these coloring books will find a nice balance between set formats and creative freedom.
This coloring book is great for personal use or as a gift. I give it five stars. -★★★★★
Notice of material connection: I received copies of the coloring books from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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