38. When I Talk To God, I Talk About Feelings. Chrissy Metz and Bradley Collins. Illustrated by Lisa Fields. 2025. 32 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars] [picture book]
First sentence: When I talk to God every day, there are so many things I want to say. Each day has its own special meaning. When I talk to God, I talk about feelings.
This one is a follow up to When I Talk To God, I Talk About You. It is primarily a concept book teaching children HOW to identify feelings and [a] way to express their feelings. The God of the picture book is 'generic' and 'nonoffensive.' For better or worse.
It is not an exhaustive guide teaching children how to pray.
There are ANIMAL characters throughout. Readers don't follow *one* set of animals, but many.
The book is written in rhyme.
ONE great thing about this one is that I found while the 'God' is more generic than not, the Bible provides ample--150 to be more precise--examples of people praying to God and expressing their feelings. The book of Psalms is packed full of emotions and feelings. Here we have human authors expressing many, many, many, many, many emotions and taking them to God. Some psalms even display MANY emotions. Because praying to God often led to a change of emotions/feelings. So the concept of talking to God about your feelings is not a foreign concept--at least not entirely.
Again if you only ever talk to God about yourself, your feelings, your emotions, and you just keep it focused on you, you, you, you, and you, then it might not be the best prayer ever. (The Psalms are always God-centered as well.) But this book doesn't have to be a instructional guide on HOW specifically to pray to God.
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