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.

Author Interview

Are you a one project at a time author or do you have multiple projects going at once?

I normally have multiple writing projects going on at once. However, there is a point in every writing project when I know I am at the place where it is time to zero in and give that project my complete attention. Then I set the other projects to the side until I complete the main one. Once I finish that one, I go back to working through the multiple projects until I know another one has to take precedent. This seems to be my writing and producing cycle.

How has your life experience helped in your writing journey?

Everything I write somehow connects with some life experience. I am a Bible-study author and teacher and much of my life experience is brought into my writing and teaching. Just as God changed my life through the study of the Bible, I believe that He can and will change others through the study of the Bible. Therefore, my past experiences, whether struggles or blessings come into my writing and teaching. I believe the testimony God gave me is a gift to pass on to others.

Where do you find your greatest inspiration?

Time alone outside in nature is one of my favorite places of inspiration. Every morning the weather allows I get up before the sun comes up, go outside, and sit alone and quiet in God’s presence. There is something so therapeutic and refreshing to start my day outside and experience the rest of the world waking up around me. I love being near a body of water, even the pool in my back yard or the pond that sits a hundred feet behind it. When I am away from home, I always look for a lake or ocean to fill that longing for the special quiet and solitude I find in nature. The beauty of nature all cause me to think about God and His beauty which inspires every time.

Who is your favorite author? Why?

Beth Moore is my favorite author. She wrote the first women’s Bible study I went through over twenty years ago. That study, A Heart Like His was a point of life change that still impacts me today. Her writing had a way of inspiring me and opening up the personal-ness of God’s word for me like nothing I had experienced before. When I read Beth Moore’s writing, I almost felt like she was sitting with me talking to me and teaching me. I have gone through so many of her Bible studies throughout the years and seen her writing transform, but even in that I felt as if she brought me on the journey of her own transformation.

Because of Beth Moore and how her Bible studies, I now write Bible studies. However, if I had to say any other author that I love reading that isn’t a Bible study author, it would be Francine Rivers. She often ties much of her fiction novel writing to stories in Scripture or related to Scripture. Her writing captures me and causes me to want to keep reading. Not all books do that for me.

What do you need in your writing space to help you stay focused?

Quiet! I have author friends who like to go to busy coffee shops and write. That astounds me that anyone can do that because I need quiet above everything else. I think it says more about how easily distracted I can get if anything else is going on. At church, I sit at the front. When I was in seminary, I always sat at the front and center right under the teacher’s nose. Anything that requires my focus, I know I need to do everything I can to eliminate the possibility of something else grabbing my attention.