"My God Is Awesome " is a children's picture book that illustrates the wondrous creations of God through the eyes of five-year-old Kyla. Through breathtaking hand-paintings by renowned illustrator Jan Spivey Gilchrist and emotive text authored by the McKenzie mother-daughter team, children and adults are reminded that God's awesomeness should be appreciated and respected in life's most simple pleasures.

My name is Monique McKenzie, and I was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since age six. The doctor that diagnosed me informed me that I would be in a wheelchair and no longer able to walk at fifteen. By the grace of God, I am thirty years old and still standing and determined to pursue my career in event planning. I have struggled with having RA growing up because I was not able to involve myself in sports while in school like other kids could, but that never stopped me. I continued to keep myself active and involve myself in various clubs and organizations, so that I may feel part...