Our 2025 spiral pre-orders are officially open! And in case you missed yesterday’s live, we unveiled a lot of fun surprises!
We are so excited to share our new collection of Prayer Journals. While the pretty, new colors may draw you in, it’s the monthly prompts and the creation of a consistent prayer habit that we know keep you coming back each year!
In case you’re new to VMP, we’ve been creating prayer journals for the last 11 years.
Feeling overwhelmed with anxious thoughts during her first pregnancy, Val began searching for a journal to help bring focus to her prayer time. When she couldn’t find what she was looking for, she decided to create it! Her original journal is now known as our Compose Prayer Journal and it’s a great first step for anyone looking to find focus and begin a prayer habit.
After adding a prayer journal for kids, men and pregnancy, in 2016, Val designed a journal option for people looking to grow even more in their prayer lives. Our Rhythms Prayer Journal provides 12 dated months of prompts, a conversations section, and a gratitude section. If you’re looking to increase your consistency in prayer for a whole year, this dated 12-month journal is the one for you! It’s the perfect choice if you’re looking to cultivate a deeper prayer life in the new year.
A few years later, Val added the Signature Prayer Journal to our collection for people (including herself!) wanting to go even deeper in their prayer lives. Beyond focus or consistency, our hope for this prayer journal is that it will help you pray expectantly and that your life would be an outflow of time with the Lord. If you’ve had success with our format and are ready for a new challenge, or if you have a consistent prayer habit already, this is your journal! This 6-month, undated journal can be started any month during the year, and has enough lined pages for you to write out your prayers for 29 days of the month (leaving a day that the beginning to prep and a day at the end to reflect). This journal also includes a “God Speaks” prompt to challenge you to take time to listen expectantly to God’s voice and record what you hear throughout the month.
This year, as I thought about what I wanted to communicate through this collection about prayer, it was this:
What if, instead of being too busy to pray, we were too busy praying?
What if the way we felt about a relaxing vacation being enough reason to put the “do not disturb” or autoresponders on, we felt with pray? That it was so vital to our existence, so thrilling to our soul that it was worth not interrupting, not sacrificing, for less important things?
A big vision but one I wanted to capture visually through the Amalfi Coast in our 3 new Rhythms and 3 new Signature colors.
Mink – this color was actually a mistake color last year that I fell in love with and knew we had to have for this year. It’s gray. It’s purple. It’s a sweet neutral.
Peach Fuzz – If you love staying on trend, I’m sure you recognize this one as the Pantone color
Emerald Isle – I’ve been wanting another dark green for a while. In the past, we’ve done an olive but this time I wasn’t a cooler shade, more reminiscent of deep green blue waters.
Signature:
Chartreuse – Like a fresh squeeze of lime, this palette needed some bold and refreshing!
Seaglass – This color has grown on me so much! I think I had a lot of 90’s memories to overcome but seeing it a fresh light has given me a new-found love for it!
Sky Blue – There’s nothing like the fading warm sky in the evening. I call it cornflower blue but if we want to stick with a good them, sky blue it is. 😉
Our prayer life is a journey and our format is a sweet way to keep going.
Compose – Come, find focus by recording your requests.
Rhythms – Grow the habit you’ve begun by praying consistently for a whole year.
Signature – Go. You have the habit, now enjoy the adventure!
Check out this quiz to get your personal journal recommendation!
And please hear us out, friends—you don’t need a journal to have a deep prayer life. But we’ve found that sometimes a little structure helps us focus our minds and build consistency in our conversations with our Father.
Don’t take our word for it, though!
“I was so afraid to take the plunge on this journal, worried it would just collect dust after a few days. But a month in, I can honestly say it has revolutionized my prayer life and has been such a direct answer to prayer for me!!” – Sarah
“These prayer journals changed my prayer life and allowed me to gain a little more focus and it’s also been fun to look back and see how the Lord has worked in my different seasons.” – Yelena
No matter what you’re looking for in your prayer life this year, the Compose, Rhythms and Signature Journals can help! Pre-orders are open now and journals will ship by end of September in plenty of time for holiday gifts and the new year!
If you have any questions before you make your journal selection, email info@valmariepaper.com. We’d love to chat with you!
And we hope this handy chart helps!
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