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Mandalas, Candles, and Prayer

Mandalas, Candles, and Prayer

A Simply Centered Advent  

by Sharon Seyfarth Garner
Libro de bolsillo
Adviento Creatividad Oración Práctica Espiritual

Slow down, simplify, and add a burst of color to your Advent. The spiritual practice of coloring mandalas (circular designs), lighting candles, and praying regularly can help us stay centered on God during this busy time of year.

Based on the 4 candles of the Advent wreath, this coloring book for adults weaves together the popular practice of coloring with 4 simple methods of contemplative prayer. This is more than just a coloring book for adults—it is also a visual prayer journal.

Each chapter includes a short vignette, an explanation of the weekly theme and prayer method, a simple candle-lighting liturgy, 7 mandalas for each week of contemplative coloring, and a closing prayer of illumination.

Let the candles light the way and calm your spirit. Color and pray. And you will experience the most meaningful gift of all—a peace that passes all understanding as you journey prayerfully toward the manger.

Format: Libro de bolsillo
ISBN: 978-0-8358-1722-6
Publisher: The Upper Room
Imprint: Upper Room Books
Publication Date: 09/01/2017
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 10,0000 x 8,0000

Sharon Seyfarth Garner is an ordained United Methodist pastor and the founding director of Belly of the Whale Spiritual Direction & Retreat Ministries. She is the author of several books including Praying with Mandalas: A Colorful Contemplative Practice and Mandalas, Candles and Prayer: A Simply Centered Advent. Sharon is a certified Spiritual Director and cherishes the gift of walking alongside folks in faith. She also leads pilgrimages and retreats across the United States and along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. She loves spending time with family at their cabin in the woods, listening to audiobooks as she gardens, taking long walks in nature, and singing loudly while making up the words.


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Mandalas, Candles and Prayer is a lovely guide to a contemplative Advent practice. The author’s weaving together of the four traditional themes of Advent with four prayer practices helps make the themes new again. Her guidelines for contemplative coloring are gently permissive, bringing a freedom and depth to the recently popular practice that make it especially meaningful. I was entranced by this delightful work.
—Sue Magrath, spiritual director and author of Healing the Ravaged Soul


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