Lydia Elle is a study in contradictions: analyst and artist; woman of mathematics and woman of music; actress, model and a humble child of God. Throughout her life’s journey, she has come to realize her two great loves—the arts and the Lord—and has committed herself to using the beauty and passion of the arts to share and celebrate God’s Word. And So I Prayed… is a chronicle of one of the darkest times in her service of the Word, a period of heartbreak and loss that she calls her “40 days of storm.” Lydia’s collection of searing, honest and inspirational essays about prayer, forgiveness, and self-discovery—one for each of the 40 days that Noah and his family endured the Flood—tracks her personal journey from despair to redemption through God’s power and love. About the experience, she says, “I didn’t want it. I would not have signed up for it. But God told me that I had to go through it. I had prayed before my storm, but never had I had conversations with God like the ones I had after the rains came. I prayed the prayers that I knew I could pray, and all the prayers that I never thought I would.”
