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.

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Giveaway

My Maker And Me Celebration Tour Giveaway

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

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I didn’t set out to be a writer. I happened unexpectedly while preparing to teach an 8th grade Sunday School lesson on Jehovah Rapha, the Lord Who Heals. I had four weeks to study and became completely absorbed in the Scriptures. Piles of notes, pages of observations and insights covered my work space. I knew I need to organize them to be able to teach from them which inspired me to create an outline.

Eventually, the outline became my first published Bible study, Quest for Wholeness: Healing the Broken. Even after completing this first study, I didn’t immediately realize God was calling me to write. A couple of years later, God stirred my heart to write My Maker and Me.

At that point, I realized writing wasn’t just a one-time project. God was calling me to write and help women know Him more deeply through His Word. Since that initial published study, I have published three more Bible studies, and written several others that I haven’t yet pursued for publishing.

This is always a hard question for me because I treasure so many verses for different reasons. But if I had to choose one overall favorite, it would be 1 John 3:1. I love what it declares—that I am deeply loved by God and welcomed into His family.

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us,
that we should be called children of God!” —1 John 3:1

I also love Jeremiah 32:17 because it reminds me of God’s limitless power and that nothing is too hard for Him.

'Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.

The inspiration for My Maker and Me began the day I watched a potter give a demonstration and His testimony at a church youth event. As he shaped the clay, he shared how God revealed His character to him through the pottery process. His story and the visual picture of the hands working with the clay struck something deep in me. I wanted to understand God in that way too.

The next day, I contacted the potter about attending his class. Learning pottery firsthand while studying the Scriptures about God as our Potter opened my eyes to a beautiful picture of His intentional work in our lives. What I witnessed in that studio lined up perfectly with what the Bible teaches about God’s intimate shaping and forming us into beautiful vessels for His purposes.

That experience and study transformed me. And I knew I needed to share what I had learned with other women. My Maker and Me grew out of that desire to help women see how loved, valued, and purposed they are by their Maker.

My biggest advice to new authors is: Never give up! If God called you to write, then write with perseverance. Writing is both hard and rewarding, but the rewards don’t always come from other people. Most of the time, writing is done alone, and much of the work goes unseen—even by those who love and support us.

But God sees and knows the labor, the tears, the hours, and the obedience behind every word. When you feel unseen or unacknowledged (every writer does at some point), hold on to the encouragement of God’s Word:

“Not that I have already attained… but I press on.” —Philippians 3:12
“I press toward the goal for the prize…” —Philippians 3:14
“Let us not grow weary… for in due season we shall reap.” —Galatians 6:9
“God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love.” —Hebrews 6:10

If God put a message in your heart, He will be faithful to use it. Your job is to show up, keep writing, and keep pressing on.

I want every woman who goes through this study to finish with deeper confidence and assurance because they realize how loved, planned, and purposed they truly are. And I pray they recognize God’s presence in every part of their story—whether in seasons of joy, routine, struggle, or deep pain. I want them to know that God is not distant, but intimately with them, working in their lives, shaping something beautiful even through the brokenness and the trials.