It's a quick read. Four of the prayers have stuck with me and I have recorded them into my commonplace book.

Justin McRoberts & Scott Erickson do it again! The prayers are real, honest & applicable to daily life. The illustrations really make you think and connect well with each theme. I really enjoyed the format allowing us to take a journey through The Lord's Prayer and really meditate on some things we might gloss over just reading it through quickly.

I read this on e-book (thanks to NetGalley and the publisher but I will absolutely be purchasing a personal hard-copy so I can take physical notes and refer to it over and over.

I received a digital advanced copy of this book from NetGalley.com and the publisher WaterBrook & Multnomah.

The authors have assembled a collection of devotions and prayers based on the Lord's Prayer. While doctrinally unsound, the prayers, illustrations and the anecdotes from the authors make praying easy. Unfortunately, they simplify the act of prayer and do not touch on when prayer becomes uncomfortable. Sometimes talking to God isn't easy or comfortable.

May It Be So is an adequate introduction for anyone unfamiliar with daily devotions and prayer.

3 out of 5 stars.

I would love to buy this for my library but all the views are not concurrent with all the school's views I work with. With that being said I am going to buy this book for all the ones in my family that I know will love this!!! I feel this is a fabulous book on all levels involved!!

May It Be So
By Justin McRoberts: Scott Erickson
Description
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.
Thank you, NetGalley for an advance copy of the book for a review.
This book is similar to Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson's first collaboration. I am certain it will be in the Bible study book review at church. I will have to have the hard copy for reviewing and sharing.

I just zipped through my advance copy of May It Be So, and now I need to go back and read it slowly, savoring the rich artwork and pondering the guided prayers. This is a wonderful little book that would be a great devotional guide through Lent, or pretty much anytime! I love the multi modal approach- art, prayer, meditation and application. The format is short enough to be user friendly for small groups, but the content is rich enough to inspire and inform.
This is not my first book from these authors, and I have happily added them to my favorites list. Their style suits me, their material inspires me. I am so very happy and grateful to NetGalley, the authors and publisher for an advance copy.

This is the kind of book that you can read each year for the purpose of deepening your reflection and thoughts on the topic of prayer, specifically the Lord’s Prayer. If you read this book just for ‘information’ you’ll gain some value from it, but to really benefit from it you need to take the time to reflect on each day’s prayer, and each week’s reflection on the Lord’s prayer. I suspect if you did that, and you did it multiple times, you would find yourself discovering new insights each time you read through the book.

As a pastor I’ve read theological books on the Lord’s Prayer and I understand the theology of it fairly well. This book isn’t devoid of theology, but it thrives at helping you to reflect personally and engage in your relationship with the one true God. An example is at the start of their reflection on the Lord’s Prayer. They reflect on the word Our and I found myself engaged in tangents and insights that were meaningful to me. I value the guidance this book provides.

I also value the short prayers they offer each day. These can be simply read, but like the rest of the book, when you take the time to reflect on them, to digest them, and to engage with them you can find there is much value for your prayer and spiritual life that pours over into your everyday life as you live it.

The value of the book will be in how you read it, and whether you take the time to reflect on it and allow God to work through it and speak into your life – challenging and encouraging you in your relationship with Him.

Wow! So, I really, really enjoyed this deeply engaging devotional. I wasn’t sure what to expect going into the book, but I was quite delighted by what I found.

The basic layout of the book:
*A short devotional, often an event or happening from the author’s life, over a line of the Lord’s Prayer

-This devotional would always end with several probing questions that forced me as a reader to evaluate areas of my life and apply the message of the devotional.
-Honestly, with growing up in a Christian home I wondered at how much of the material would seem new. I mean it’s the Lord’s Prayer. But each and every time the author took the devotional in a way that made me think over that line in a different light than I ever had before. And in a good way that was very solidly Biblical.

*several daily one-or-two line prayers
-These read almost as resolves and easily could be developed into a longer lesson or life-long prayer of faith in one’s one personal Christian walk. For example, “May I never confuse my own limited capacity for love and generosity with the depth of the well I draw from.”
-The wording and phrasing made my heart rejoice and is an excellent use of quiet understatement and “less is better.”

*Mixed with those prayers, abstract accompanying illustrations
-Hmmm… I think I would have appreciated these better if they had a brief explanation with them. Sometimes they aided beautifully in getting a thought across, while other times I was only distracted from the prayers by trying to “get” what they meant. (Half of the reason why I docked a star)

*One last prayer before going back to another devotional. “Grant us once again the assurance of Your presence and love.”
-I loved how this one line would bring everything back to perspective and signal the start of another devotional.

(Why only 4 stars? While I really enjoyed my time of reflection while reading this book and know I’ll be coming back and re-reading over my notes I book journaled over, there were a couple reasons this book didn’t get 5 stars from me. Firstly, I already mentioned with the illustrations. Also, I was disappointed in the lack of a clear gospel message. For a Christian well-acquainted with the gospel, I loved the challenge and invite to grow it presented, and the book was very solidly based, but I also missed hearing just the plan gospel in this book. And third, because I was disappointed in the author’s note, which apologized to anyone the author might offend by referring to God by a masculine pronoun. It’s sad to me that anyone would even feel the need to have to say that in a book meant for a Christian audience. )

FTC Disclosure: I received a copy of this book for promotional purposes from Netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. These are my honest thoughts and opinions.

I was drawn to this book because I have been a fan of Scott Erickson's artwork for many years. His art pairs wonderfully with Justin McRoberts' writing to create a beautiful book. It is comprised of short prayers with thought-provoking accompanying images, interspersed with reflections on the Lord's Prayer. I enjoyed reading this ebook, but cannot wait for the physical book to be released. It is definitely a book to read in its physical form so that you can see the two-page spread of prayer and image concurrently. It is a book you can return to in your daily personal prayers, and I am also looking forward to reading it with my Bible study group.