Book Review

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Praying in Color
Kid's Edition
Sybil MacBeth
Paraclete Press 02/09 Paperback $16.99
ISBN: 9781557255952

This playful book helps children can get in touch with their inner artist and connect with God and others through prayer. Sybil MacBeth, a math teacher and active member of her church, shows how children can use doodling as a means of spending time with God and opening their hearts to others. She suggests creating a prayer drawing using various shapes, working with different names of God, and adding the names of family members and friends inside the shapes.

She also shows how to create a valentine card for the Creator, draw confession or thanksgiving prayers, illustrate a passage from Scripture, and much more. "Remember," she writes, "praying in color is a way to pray with your eyes, your ears, and your hands. It invites your mind, your heart, and your body into the prayer."

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