The Return

Review: Tranquility: A Prayer and Reflection Coloring Journal Compiled by Amie Carlson Tyndale House Publishers 2017 I have become a believer in the adult coloring books, an admission that will sway my opinion of this book.   Coloring books in general require me to stop, slow down, and relax.   Add a time to consider what a Bible verse says and things are good.   Very good, in fact.   That’s what this journal is about.    Tranquility describes this journal well.   The introduction page says tranquility is a state of calmness, peacefulness, quietness, serenity.   Sounds wonderful already.   Just typing those words felt good.   The book has small drawings on nearly every page that may be colored, a few lines (or more) to use as the reader sees fit, and a short paragraph to encourage some prayer.    The overall size doesn’t exceed a child’s book.   No giant designs to labor over.   One a day woul...

Review: Extraordinary Ordinary Moments: A Journal Jorey Hurley Clarkson Potter 2016 I love journals!   So I had to take a look at this one, of course.   Nice feel, intriguing design for the cover, and big blank space to use on each page.   That isn’t to say the pages are blank.   Each one has a prompt and a small bit of artwork which is the author’s as well.   As Hurley suggests in her introduction this can be a book for writing, doodling, pasting pictures, whatever works for you.   Hence, the big blank spaces that beg for attention.   So far so good. And it stays good.   The idea is to take a few minutes a day to “start noticing the wonderful, surprising, and interesting things already all around you.   Your life is beautiful.”   Time well spent and I’ve found it refreshes the mind and soul.   Here’s a couple of random prompts I picked just flipping through the pages.   Something full of possibilities, so...