Designed to Pray: Creative Ways to Engage with God
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Whether you’ve been praying for a long time or are just beginning to enter in, this eight-week adventure from Kelly O’Dell Stanley will infuse passion and creativity into your communication with God. Filled with daily interactive activities—everything from coloring pages to writing prompts to doodling—you’ll find space to let go of fear and expectations and discover what it means to engage with the One who loves you.
Designed to Pray offers an innovative way to start viewing God, the world around you, and your faith with a new perspective. Because when you pray, you’re nurturing a relationship with God. It’s what you were designed to do.
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Designed to Pray - Kelly O'Dell Stanley
Week 1 • Fumbling into God’s Presence
DAY
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Facing Your Fears
Fear is the shadow of creativity. When we choose to create, we bring light to our fears. The darkness does not prevail over us. The creative act is inherently an act of courage. We are born to far too many fears and far too great a darkness. It is only when we find the courage to create that we are freed from those fears and that darkness.
—ERWIN MCMANUS, THE ARTISAN SOUL
Since I started writing about prayer, I’ve been reminded just how taboo the topic is. When a friend introduced me to her friend at a luncheon and said I had written a book the woman smiled. "Oh, that’s great! What’s your book