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Maybe you hunger to know God better. Maybe you love color. Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractable or impatient soul, or a word-weary pray-er. Perhaps you struggle with a short attention span, a restless body, or a tendency to live in your head.
This prayer form can take as little or as much time as you have or want to commit, from 15 minutes to a weekend retreat."A new prayer form gives God an invitation and a new door to penetrate the locked cells of our hearts and minds," explains Sybil MacBeth. "For many of us, using only words to pray reduces God by the limits of our finite words."
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Use Praying in Color to help with lectio divina
memorizing Scripture
prayers for discernment
creating a personal Advent or Lenten calendar
Read Online Praying in Color Drawing a New Path to God Active Prayer Sybil MacBeth Books
"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 time I've been laboring in prayer over them that sometimes I just have no words when I pray for them. Then I picked up a tablet grabbed some pens and wrote their name on the page and just began drawing water (the living water of Christ), fire (the passionate love that God has for them). I scribbled different scriptures as they came to mind. It was as much a prayer as I've every said but was wordless. It was meditative and drew my own heart out of the despair I would sometimes experience when praying for this person. It became a prayer that lifted me up as well. I was ministered to by the Holy Spirit in this and faith just surged in my heart for God's work in both of our lives."
Product details - Series Active Prayer
- Paperback 110 pages
- Publisher Paraclete Press (April 1, 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10 1557255121
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Praying in Color Drawing a New Path to God Active Prayer Sybil MacBeth Books Reviews :
Praying in Color Drawing a New Path to God Active Prayer Sybil MacBeth Books Reviews
- 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 time I've been laboring in prayer over them that sometimes I just have no words when I pray for them. Then I picked up a tablet grabbed some pens and wrote their name on the page and just began drawing water (the living water of Christ), fire (the passionate love that God has for them). I scribbled different scriptures as they came to mind. It was as much a prayer as I've every said but was wordless. It was meditative and drew my own heart out of the despair I would sometimes experience when praying for this person. It became a prayer that lifted me up as well. I was ministered to by the Holy Spirit in this and faith just surged in my heart for God's work in both of our lives.
- At first I was disappointed because I thought there would be useable sample pages included to color and learn. This is not the case. However its simplicity is refreshing and ideas and instruction is exactly what I needed. I highly recommend this book, just dont expect pictures to color to be included in it. There are diagrams that are helpful throughout. If your a hard to sit still person, this is awesome.
- For me this book helped me finding a new way to pray when I felt like my passion for prayer had been wanting. As an individual that was diagnosed with ADD, I totally identified with the my highly distracted and day-dreamer type person. So hard to stay focused or not drift off to sleep.
The use of scripture and so many different ways to apply this, opened my mind to so many possibilities with prayer that I had never considered. The descriptions and illustrations are exceptionally helpful. I definitely was picking up everything that Sister Sybil is throwing down in this exceptional book on prayer in color. Submitted by Olive Berg. - 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 this book might be for you.
The author very briefly describes ways to use color and drawing for other things as well -- "Some days we just want to dump all our complaints, whining, grumpiness, and misery on God" (67). There is also a very brief mention of ways to use this creative process for thanksgiving, forgiveness, laying out your spiritual journey, celebrating mentors, a personal mission statement, names of God, Christian words (like salvation, sacrifice). The author also shows ways to memorize and explore Scripture, to remember an event, and to practice discernment through this creative practice.
About half-way through the book, however, I began to wonder about the definition of prayer. It was only towards the end of the book that I read even a glimpse about hearing from God - mainly through the practice of lectio divina. Perhaps I missed it somewhere in the book. And perhaps my expectations were off, but when I picked up this book I was hoping for new and creative ways to hear from God, not go through my long list of requests. I will definitely utilize the general creative ideas that the author puts forth in the book, just not for the laundry list. - I love this so much. I struggle to focus when I pray, and having something to do with my hands and focus my attention without also having to come up with a bunch of words (like I do with journaling) makes praying a much more helpful and fruitful experience. Every time while I was reading that I thought of another way I could use this, I discovered she wrote a chapter on it. So many approaches! And for maybe the first time in my life, I look forward to praying, and it feels less like a difficult but necessary discipline and more like a joy. I'm a pastor and I've been using this to pray for one of my church member families each day, and then I give it to them after, and it's been very cool to see their reaction. We are doing this as a part of our upcoming Lenten series on different ways to pray, and I'm so excited to see how people respond to it.
- A whole new world has opened up for me. This form of praying is so perfect for me. I doodle. I pray. I love colors and I most certainly love God. I spend time speaking with God as my pen moves around the sketch paper. Thank you. Sybil MacBeth.
- 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.
