May It Be So: Forty Days with the Lord's Prayer

By Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson

Combining prayers in two languages--words and images--this contemporary prayer guide will help you spend time in conversation with God.

As people of faith, we all struggle at times to sustain a flourishing prayer life--a loss felt all the more keenly in these times of confusion, political turbulence, and global calamity. This unique book offers a timeless solution for the spiritual and skeptical alike.

Combining story-driven reflections with visual and written prayers, this simple 40-day prayer guide will help you reconnect with God as you rediscover your own ongoing conversation with Him. Using the familiar refrains in the Lord's Prayer as a guide, this groundbreaking resource invites you to reconnect with God creatively and organically.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WaterBrook
• Release date: Sep 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9780525653080

Justin McRoberts

Justin McRoberts is an author, coach, speaker, and songwriter. For over 20 years, Justin has helped artists, ministers, and entrepreneurs find their way and solve problems in their creative processes. When he's not writing, speaking, or coaching, you can find him as the host of the At Sea Podcast. He lives in the East San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at JustinMcRoberts.com.

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Praise for

May It Be So

This is a must-read! If you want a book to move you, make you think, and profoundly impact you, this book is for you. What Scott and Justin have done is nothing short of bringing beauty and art and words to us in a way we desperately need.

—Jefferson Bethke, best-selling author of Jesus>Religion and Love That Lasts

"Prayer: Forty Days of Practice was transformative for my prayer life. Now Justin and Scott have done it once more with their new gorgeous offering May It Be So. With the Lord’s Prayer as its focus, through guided prompts, stunning artwork, and vulnerable stories, they’ve created another companion…another invitation…to experience the way Jesus himself taught us to pray."

—Nichole Nordeman, recording artist and songwriter

The unique integration of words and images in this book beckon us toward a new depth of understanding, causing us to see things in our prayers, in ourselves, and about God that may have been invisible to us before. Sure to transform us, this book and its practices can act as both an anchor and a map, helping us hold fast to what is true, while also giving gentle guidance to move forward.

—Hillary McBride, therapist, researcher, author, podcaster

"In May It Be So, Justin and Scott bring fresh perspective to an ancient prayer with honest, heartfelt prose, and simple, elegant illustration. They invite their reader into an unvarnished conversation with the Divine, and for this reader, that conversation was long overdue. This book is a gift."

—Cameron Dezen Hammon, author of This Is My Body

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Prayer

Deep, beautiful, and centered, this book drives us ever closer to being people who love God and love one another. This book has helped me move deeper into the presence of God.

—Matt Mikalatos, author of Good News for a Change

"In my home we have a special shelf where we keep sacred things of beauty. On the shelf are a few icons, seashells, the Book of Common Prayer, and this book, Prayer. Each person in my family—from children to adults—sits in quiet wonder as they flip these pages. This meditative and practical book brings together prayer, practices, and visual art to provide a feast for the soul."

—Tish Harrison Warren, priest in the Anglican Church in North America and author of Liturgy of the Ordinary

"Prayer surprises, interrupts, explodes, confronts, and inspires. I encourage you to take up their invitation for Forty Days of Practice."

—Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Theological Seminary

"A gift of a book. Its compelling prayers and captivating images resonated deep in my soul. Sacred in its sincerity and simplicity, Prayer is a forty-day path we can walk together to live out the spiritual truths that make ourselves—and our world—uncompromisingly whole."

—Sarah Thebarge, author of The Invisible Girls and Well

"Prayer made it to the place of highest honor in our home: the bathroom throne. This is not a book you devour. It’s a book you savor. Each page contains a treasure…like