The Return

Review: Restore my Soul: A Coloring Book Devotional Journey Ann-Margaret Hovsepian Momentum 2016 Review a coloring book? Look a bit closer at the full title and this is also a devotional book.   I think I’m beginning to understand the coloring book thing more than I have before.   And I think it’s a good idea.   It’s not some idle waste of time.   Away with all those 30 second devotions!   Be gone those 15 minutes with God books!   These are a step toward a devotional time that matters.   Unless you can color bunches faster than I can, of course.   These force you to sit still for much longer than 15 minutes and during that time what goes through your head? They may even take a couple of days to complete.   Eventually after the “Do I use orange or yellow here?” questions drift away the devotion you read on the opposite page begins to echo in your thoughts.   Now you’re getting somewhere.   All those you’s in the bit...

Review: Live Free: An Adult Coloring Book Margaret Feinberg Bethany House 2016 I had to do this, just had to---review a coloring book.   Sounded too easy.   It wasn’t all that easy really, for me anyway.   Seems like the idea is to get a person to just be still for a time.   The one thing that I find so hard to do is be still.   I didn’t realize how true that was until I tried to do this.    The drawings are wonderful. Some are more intricate than others, but all of them act as frames for an encouraging verse of Scripture that help focus on living free, or an affirmation of a believer’s position in Christ.   The paper weight is good for most forms of color application.   The opposing page is lined and can be used for thoughts or whatever doodling might help focus a person’s thoughts.   It’s your coloring book, after all.   Color on! Feinberg provides a guide for how she sees the coloring book being used.   ...