How I started making Prayer Focus Beads.
Ok… Here we go. This is how I started, but also a bit of my testimony, please bear with me. I’m 59 years old and a newly saved Christian as of this year, 2025. I thought that I was saved when I was a child, during adulthood, I struggled with alcohol, substance abuse, etc. I was injured while in the military and later discharged. I was 23, crushed that I had lost my dream and did not adjust well to civilian life, so I drank to self-medicate. I spent the next 18 years working in various funeral homes as an embalmer and funeral director, which wasn’t good mentally, physically, and emotionally. I embraced a lot of things that I shouldn’t have during those years. This year, I was faced with some serious mental and health issues (God has a way of getting your attention). I returned to church and realized that I hadn’t been saved. I gave my life to Christ and have been happier and more at peace than ever before.
I have trouble focusing and wanted to stay more focused during my prayer time. I found myself clenching my fists very tightly so I would stay focused in prayer. I made a set of beads with a cross on it as an alternative. I could hold them during prayer and carry them with me. I made a few more and gave them away to some of the guys in my Men’s Group that wanted them and hope others will too and that’s why I opened this Etsy shop, Grace Between Us.
It is my sincere hope that you will find these useful in your prayer life too. Each time a sale is made, I will donate one to someone in need and cannot afford one.
