Prayer is waking up to the presence of God no matter where I am or what I am doing. Barbara Brown Taylor An Altar in the World.
There is a difference between prayer and prayers. We are called to co-create with the living God yet often feel that expressing our creativity is discouraged. What stirs our creativity to pray without ceasing? Here is a list of the best books we have found.
Bill, Brent and Booram, Beth: Awaken Your Senses: Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God
Benner, Juliet: Contemplative Vision: A Guide to Christian Art and Prayer
Brazzeal, David: Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
Brookes, Mona: Drawing with Children
Brussat, Frederic and Mary Ann: Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
Cameron, Julia: The Complete Artist’s Way Creativity as a Spiritual Practice
de Mello, Anthony: Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Practices
Edwards, Betty: Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain
Fox, Matthew: Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet
L’Engle, Madeleine: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
MacBeth, Sybil: Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God
Sark: Make Your Creative Dreams Come Real; Journal and Play!
Sine, Christine: Return to Our Senses: Reimagining How We Pray
Smith, Mandy: Making a Mess and Meeting God: Unruly Ideas and Everyday Experiments for Worship
Stanley, Kelly O’Dell: Praying Upside Down: A Creative Prayer Experience to Transform Your time With God
Scandrette, Mark: Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love
Taylor, Barbara Brown: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
Tutu, Desmond and Mpho: The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
Valters Paintner, Christine: Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice; Lectio Divina: the sacred art: transforming Words and Images into heart-Centered Prayer; The Artist’s Rule; Illuminating the Way;
Wolpert, Daniel: Creating a Life with God: The Call of Ancient Prayer Practices