| 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. |  |
Genre: Christian Living/Bible Study
Release Date: July 22, 2025
Release Date: July 22, 2025
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Interview with Pat
#1. What was the inspiration behind this book?
Watching a pottery demonstration was the spark that started everything. As the potter worked with the clay, he shared how God had revealed Himself through the art and process of pottery making. He talked about His intimate involvement, His shaping process, and the deep sense of value the potter discovered in God’s hands.
I was so moved by both the visual demonstration and the potter’s personal testimony that I knew I wanted to understand God as my Potter. I wanted to see this truth laid out clearly in Scripture. I called the potter, asked to attend his class, and spent time in the university studio learning the pottery process from start to finish.
In that room, watching clay being thrown, centered, shaped, trimmed, and fired, I saw powerful parallels to what Scripture says about God forming us into His beautiful vessels. Once again, God used that picture to transform my own heart. I knew I had to share what I had discovered, experienced, and learned. So - this Bible study was born.
Watching a pottery demonstration was the spark that started everything. As the potter worked with the clay, he shared how God had revealed Himself through the art and process of pottery making. He talked about His intimate involvement, His shaping process, and the deep sense of value the potter discovered in God’s hands.
I was so moved by both the visual demonstration and the potter’s personal testimony that I knew I wanted to understand God as my Potter. I wanted to see this truth laid out clearly in Scripture. I called the potter, asked to attend his class, and spent time in the university studio learning the pottery process from start to finish.
In that room, watching clay being thrown, centered, shaped, trimmed, and fired, I saw powerful parallels to what Scripture says about God forming us into His beautiful vessels. Once again, God used that picture to transform my own heart. I knew I had to share what I had discovered, experienced, and learned. So - this Bible study was born.
#2. How long did it take to finish writing this book?
I began writing the study in May 2006 and completed the manuscript one year later, in May 2007. Over the years, I taught the study in various churches and women’s groups—the last time being in 2017. After that, I set it aside for a season.
Then, at a writer’s conference in April 2023, I met Terry Whalin, an acquisitions editor for Morgan James Publishing. I shared the concept and history of the study with him, and that conversation opened the door for the publishing process to begin.
I began writing the study in May 2006 and completed the manuscript one year later, in May 2007. Over the years, I taught the study in various churches and women’s groups—the last time being in 2017. After that, I set it aside for a season.
Then, at a writer’s conference in April 2023, I met Terry Whalin, an acquisitions editor for Morgan James Publishing. I shared the concept and history of the study with him, and that conversation opened the door for the publishing process to begin.
#3. What part of the writing process do you like the least?
I genuinely love every part of the writing and teaching process. But after the writing is complete, the part I enjoy the least is pitching the book to publishers. The creative work gives me joy—the pitching feels much more daunting.
I genuinely love every part of the writing and teaching process. But after the writing is complete, the part I enjoy the least is pitching the book to publishers. The creative work gives me joy—the pitching feels much more daunting.
#4. What new or interesting things did you learn while researching for this book?
Learning the art of pottery completely reshaped my understanding of God’s work in difficult seasons. For a long time, I assumed that trials, especially in ministry, meant God was displeased with me. If things were hard, I believed something must be wrong.
But in the potter’s studio, I discovered a different truth. Many parts of the process would be incredibly uncomfortable for the clay if it had nerve endings and feelings: being slammed onto the wheel, stretched, pressed, carved, trimmed, and finally placed into an intensely hot fire. Yet every step is guided by the potter’s vision for something beautiful and useful.
I learned that the potter never takes his eyes off the clay. The pressure, the tools, and the fire are never punishment. Instead, they are part of the intentional forming process. That realization helped me see God’s hands shaping me in seasons of hardship just as much as in seasons of peace. God sees the beautiful outcome long before we ever feel it, and He works with purpose at every stage.
Learning the art of pottery completely reshaped my understanding of God’s work in difficult seasons. For a long time, I assumed that trials, especially in ministry, meant God was displeased with me. If things were hard, I believed something must be wrong.
But in the potter’s studio, I discovered a different truth. Many parts of the process would be incredibly uncomfortable for the clay if it had nerve endings and feelings: being slammed onto the wheel, stretched, pressed, carved, trimmed, and finally placed into an intensely hot fire. Yet every step is guided by the potter’s vision for something beautiful and useful.
I learned that the potter never takes his eyes off the clay. The pressure, the tools, and the fire are never punishment. Instead, they are part of the intentional forming process. That realization helped me see God’s hands shaping me in seasons of hardship just as much as in seasons of peace. God sees the beautiful outcome long before we ever feel it, and He works with purpose at every stage.
#5. What do you hope your readers will remember after finishing this book?
More than anything, I want every woman who completes this study to walk away knowing how deeply loved, intentionally planned, and divinely purposed she is.
I hope she carries with her the truth that God is present in every joyful, ordinary, painful, or broken season, and that He is continually shaping something beautiful in her life. Even in the trials, she is held, she is known, and she is being formed into a vessel for His glory.
More than anything, I want every woman who completes this study to walk away knowing how deeply loved, intentionally planned, and divinely purposed she is.
I hope she carries with her the truth that God is present in every joyful, ordinary, painful, or broken season, and that He is continually shaping something beautiful in her life. Even in the trials, she is held, she is known, and she is being formed into a vessel for His glory.
More from Pat
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.
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.
“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.
 Pat Domangue | 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.
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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