Sybil MacBeth

Be Kind to Yourself

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“The beauty of Cindy Bunch's book Be Kind to Yourself is its simplicity and balance. With just two questions, What's bugging you? and What's bringing you joy? Cindy presents a daily framework for a disciplined but tender spiritual life. Be Kind to Yourself is both practical and confessional. An array of old and new practices helps the reader to mine and illumine those two questions. Stories of her own faithful but flubbed spiritual life encourage us to be gentle with ourselves in the challenging work of prayer and devotion. What Cindy offers is an honest, doable, and shameless way to connect to God and self.”

Not Finished Yet

Children & Youth

“Sharon Garlough Brown has once again proved her genius as storyteller and teacher. In the new picture book Not Finished Yet, Sharon expands our understanding of prayer. Wren, the young girl in the story, and her grandmother paint their feelings and their prayers in living color on large canvases. When Wren's painting becomes a total mess, her grandmother listens to Wren's misery and helps her to transform her canvas into a visual lament. This is a lovely book—both beautiful and full of love. Each page is a canvas for the wonderful and intricate watercolors of artist Jessica Linn Evans. Each face is a canvas for the emotions and longings of the characters. Together, the story and the pictures expand our image of a loving God who wants to hear and see all our thoughts and feelings—even the messy ones. Not Finished Yet is a finished little masterpiece for both children and adults to savor.”

Sensible Shoes

Fiction

“I have been on retreats with [these characters] and I am one of them. Their neediness, arrogance, cluelessness, perfectionism, self-pity, codependence . . . are mine. By the end of the book I was grateful for author Sharon Garlough Brown's fresh eyes and voice. She not only gave me resharpened tools for my journey with Jesus but also reminded me that I need fellow pilgrims to love me and keep me honest along the way.”

Sensible Shoes Study Guide

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“[Sharon Garlough Brown] not only gave me resharpened tools for my journey with Jesus but also reminded me that I need fellow pilgrims to love me and keep me honest along the way.”