Coloring Your Prayers : An Inspirational Coloring Book for Making Dreams Come True

by Manzi, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780609606216
• ISBN10: 0609606212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Harmony

Summary

Giving adults the freedom to "play with art," this unusual coloring book explores creative self-expression as a pathway to meditation and prayer. Remember the quiet meditative experience of time spent with coloring books when you were a child? Here's a way to replicate and deepen that experience.Coloring Your Prayersshows us how to get back in touch with our playfulness and prayerfulness by using crayons, paints, beads, or any objects we find appealing. It suggests ways of creating art to honor God and celebrate our spirit. It teaches how coloring can relax and free us to find our own intuitive process. Its inventive drawings and magical words become treasure maps for discovering our own divine nature. In addition to fanciful illustrations to color, Carolyn Manzi provides an abundance of inspirational tips for praying passionately; choosing and using prayer beads; making prayer cards with personal daily affirmations; creating altars; designing prayer robes, scarves, and pillows; and hosting prayer parties. To enhance the creative mood, she offers a diverse discography of great music to color by that brings us into communion with our sacred selves.

Author Biography

CAROLYN MANZI is an artist, writer, and jewelry designer living in Northern California. She teaches the Language of Living Our Dreams and conducts prayer parties in the Bay area.

Table of Contents

The Prayer Party	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(4)
Coloring Your Dreams	17	(2)
Freeing the Inner Adult	19	(2)
Prayer is the Road to Believe	21	(98)
The Prayer Party	119	(49)
Sacred Scribble Space	168	(4)
Coloring to Music	172	(1)
Guidelines for Passionate Prayer and Making Your Dreams Come True	173	(2)
The Prayer Beads	175	(2)
The Prayer Cards	177	(1)
Prayer Party Dream Journal	178	(1)
The Prayer Altar	178	(1)
Prayer Robes and Prayer Wear	179	(1)
Prayer Pillows	180	(3)
Goddess Gateau	183	(4)
Priestess Punch	187	(1)
Buddha Rocks	188	(1)
Throwing Your Own Prayer Party	189	(1)
A Final Word	190