About the Book

Book: My Maker And Me

Author: Pat Domangue

Genre: Christian Living/Bible Study

Release Date: July 22, 2025

A six-week guided Bible study based on Isaiah 64:8, My Maker & Me helps Christian women discover God as their potter and understand His continual presence in their lives.

Through the unique perspective of viewing God and themselves through Scripture and the art of pottery, Christian women will learn how God intimately works to shape them into the beautiful vessels He created them to become, much like a potter shapes clay.

Many Christian women struggle with trusting God because they don’t know Him from the intimate perspective of their potter. My Maker & Me helps women grow in understanding God’s love and care for them especially when they face difficult seasons or walk through fiery trials. As their trust grows, they will also find security, purpose, and meaning even in the most difficult seasons of life. If they are struggling with who they are and discovering their purpose, they will gain a greater sense of their true identity and purpose, setting them up to embrace God’s plan for their life. Women committed to completing this six-week study will experience spiritual growth and personal transformation.

 

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About the Author

A resident of West Monroe, Louisiana, Pat Domangue has spent the past twenty years in women’s ministry inspiring and igniting a passion for Jesus through writing and teaching Bible studies for women. Pat has an advanced certification in Women’s Ministry, a bachelor’s degree in Christian Ministries through New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a master’s degree in Biblical Studies from Trinity Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana. She has published four Bible studies for women: Quest for Wholeness: Healing The Broken; Equipped & Empowered: Preparing Women for Spiritual Battle; DIG: Digging Into God’s Word, a how-to guide for studying the Bible; and her latest, My Maker and Me: A Six-Week Bible Study of Becoming God’s Beautiful Vessel. Pat has also produced and hosted a Christian women’s television program and radio shows, and she currently hosts H.E.R. Podcast, bringing healing and encouragement to women in real life.

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My Maker and Me: A Six-Week Bible Study of Becoming God’s Beautiful Vessel

Have you ever watched a potter at work? Strong hands caress and move the clay, shaping it as it spins on the wheel. The potter leans close, eyes focused, applying just the right pressure to bring something beautiful to life.

That’s where my writing journey began — watching my first pottery demonstration and hearing the potter share the treasures he had discovered about God at that wheel. God had revealed Himself through the art and process of pottery, opening the potter’s eyes to see His intimate work in his life and the great value God saw in him.

As I listened, something stirred deep inside me. I wanted to know God like that — intimately, personally, as the Potter who shapes and molds my life. Within days, I was sitting in the potter’s class, craving to experience God in that same way. The potter guided us through every stage of creating pottery — from dry clay, to shaping damp clay on the wheel, to firing and glazing.

Each week, I carried what I learned from class into prayer, asking God to reveal Himself and show me how Scripture mirrors the process. Just as the potter shapes the clay, God shapes us into His beautiful vessels — molding us through seasons of pressure, waiting, and refining.

My Maker and Me was born from the revelation of Isaiah 64:8:

“But now, O Lord, You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand.”

Through this study, women will discover the heart of the Master Potter who is intimately at work in their lives—shaping, refining, and transforming them into the vessels He created them to be.

A Season of Waiting and Shaping

One of my favorite sections of the study is Week 4: The Master’s Design. It explores how God uses waiting seasons not as wasted time, but as sacred shaping time. Even in the waiting, God is still working—molding and strengthening us to become His beautiful vessels.

Much like a potter allows the clay to rest before the next stage of forming, God allows us moments of stillness to prepare us for His next move. In those seasons, even when we can’t see or feel His presence, He is working—always with intention and love.

Writing this study wasn’t easy. God allowed me to live many of the lessons He was teaching me. I had my own moments of testing, trial, and surrender. Yet in every challenge, He revealed His faithfulness and assured me of His nearness.

An Invitation to the Journey

My prayer for My Maker and Me is that women everywhere will experience what I did—a deeper awareness of God’s hand at work in their lives. Whether you’re in a season of stretching, refining, or resting, I believe this study will help you see how the Potter is crafting something beautiful in you.

Come join me on this journey of becoming God’s beautiful vessel.

Interview with the Author

• If you could invite one person to dinner, who would it be and what would you cook?

I would love to invite Beth Moore to dinner. God has used her to impact my life probably more than any other person. I would love to have the honor of having her in my home and cooking for her. Since I am a Louisiana girl, I would cook gumbo, garlic French bread, and potato salad (true Cajuns eat potato salad with their gumbo).

• Does writing energize or exhaust you?

I love writing and I find that it energizes me until it doesn’t. I usually begin writing early in the mornings after time hanging out with Jesus. When in a good writing groove, I don’t want to stop. I want to stay at my desk reading, studying, and banging on my computer for as long as I can. However, somewhere around the five to six-hour mark, my body begins to reject the stationary life. When I notice a sensation of tingling and irritation in my physical body, I know I must get up and walk away for a while. Sometimes I will go for a walk, meet my husband for lunch, or get a little house work done. After a hour or so, I am good to come back to my office and begin again.

Writing doesn’t exhaust me, because the one thing I have never done is take a break and lay down or nap. If anything the writing energizes me to do the writing and then to get other things done that also need to be done like taking care of my home, my relationship with my husband, or myself.

• How did writing this book grow you spiritually?

My Maker and Me began in the potter’s studio at a local university. Seeing a potter’s demonstration and hearing his testimony of how God had revealed Himself to him while working with clay on the potter’s wheel inspired me to know more. So, I attended the potter’s class to learn the art of pottery and see what God wanted to reveal of Himself to me.

This journey taught me so much about God and myself. At the potter’s wheel and in that studio the truth that God never leaves us became real to me. I saw how engaged and attentive the potter was with each piece of clay that he worked with. During that time, I personally was going through a season where I felt that God had almost forgotten about me. He had called me to ministry and used me, but this was a time when I had come through a painful trial and felt as if God had set me on a shelf and forgotten me.

God’s word tells us He will never leave us or forsake us, but what about in the fiery trials? What about in the seasons when nothing seems to be happening and you’re unnoticed, unused – waiting? That was me. But through the art and process of pottery making the truth of the Bible came to life. Just as the potter knew every clay pot on the shelf awaiting the next stage of the process, I realized that He held me in this place for a reason – to prepare me for the next stage. I remember standing outside of the kiln with the fire blazing on the inside and the potter and I peering through the glass. The potter said he was watching and waiting for the clay to look a certain way that would tell him it was at the perfect stage to come out of the fire so that it would be a strong usable vessel.

Questions I had based on my life experiences were answered through this study, both in the studio and then when I would go to the Bible to see what God wanted to show me related to what I had learned about pottery. To encapsulate how God grew me spiritually while writing this book, I would say, that God taught me that He really is always present and working something good in my life, and He really has purposed me for His honor.

• What do you like to do when you are not writing?

When I am not writing, I am usually doing one of two things. Either I am hanging out with grandchildren. (I have 5.) Or, I am at the gym working out. Both of which go hand in hand. I work out so that I can stay strong and healthy so that I can have a full life enjoying my grandchildren and continuing to be active with them.

• What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?

A Heart Like His by Beth Moore was the first women’s Bible study I ever went through and it began my Bible study journey. For several years I went through every new Bible study she released. Her writing and teaching dramatically impacted my life, and still does.

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Stories By Gina, January 26 (Author Interview)

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, January 27 (Author Interview)

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, January 28

A Reader’s Brain , January 29 (Author Interview)

Texas Book-aholic, January 29

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Pat is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card and a copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://gleam.io/Ft6nd/my-maker-and-me-celebration-tour-giveaway