Does your prayer life need a breath of fresh air, a burst of new life?

Do you have trouble finding the words to say? You need to try Active Prayer!

Paraclete Press has developed this series of books and videos to show Christians how to take prayer out of their heads. Prayer doesn't have to be just words. We can also pray by being active - doing something, rather than just saying or thinking something, is to reinforce it's meaning and focus your intention as never before. Try one or more of these ways of Active Prayer, or purchase the entire collection to introduce to your church community or to energize your own prayer life:

Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God is a creative prayer form that incorporates drawing and color into prayer. Great for easily distractable children (and adults). Rather than sitting still and folding your hands to pray you will get out your markers and paper to pray.

Designed for use during any 40-day period, Writing to God relieves you of the self-consciousness of trying to pray “the right way,” inviting you instead to pray wherever your pen leads! With a special section of prayers and prompts for Holy Week and Easter, this is an ideal resource for use during the 40 days of Lent.

In Making Crosses: A Creative Connection to God you will explore how the practice of making a cross takes you beyond analytic thinking, and offers a way of prayer where understanding comes from doing. Working with the most complex symbol of Christianity—the cross—you will learn to co-create with God in concrete and tangible ways, and discover the meaning of faith.

In Praying with the Body: Bringing the Psalms to Life Benedictine Oblate Roy DeLeon helps you to express your prayers physically - through the use of the Psalms and the practice of embodied prayer. This worshipful, physical form of prayer is appropriate for your personal use, or to use in a church community.