Download The God Box mobile app!

Introducing The God Box mobile app, a companion to the bestselling book by Mary Lou Quinlan who tells the story about her mother's simple note writing ritual for caring for friends and family. This hopeful and personal app allows you to write your wishes, prayers and worries and place them in your own God Box while on-the-go. It's a wonderful way to show people you care and create legacy too.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, click here to download on iTunes.

Special features:

• Personalize 9 unique designer note papers.
• Save them for safekeeping.
• Share them with friends and family via email, Twitter or Facebook.
• Sort them by date, alphabet or key word.
• Sign up for the email newsletter.
• Learn more about the book.

• "The courage and wisdom from the messages left in her mother’s God Box will inspire you to create a God Box of your own."
  – GAIL SHEEHY, AUTHOR OF "PASSAGES IN CAREGIVING"
• "A wonderful legacy…Keeping a God Box is an incredibly moving and hopeful ritual that we should all consider adding into our daily lives."
  – REBA, MUSICIAN, AUTHOR, ACTRESS
• "In the slips of paper that carry this sweet story forward, we can see the love in our own families and the great possibilities of simple faith."
  – JEFFREY ZASLOW, COAUTHOR OF "THE LAST LECTURE"
• "A beautiful story of love, faith and family. It reads like an intimate, familiar prayer."
  – ELIZABETH GILBERT, AUTHOR OF "EAT, PRAY, LOVE"
• "Mary Lou Quinlan shares her mother’s handmade and heartfelt gift of how to persist, believe and move forward with joy."
  – LEE WOODRUFF, AUTHOR OF "IN AN INSTANT"
• "Mary Lou Quinlan has told the story of her mother in a way that entertains, moves and inspires. The thoughts about life and values will stick with you forever."
  – JIM LEHRER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF PBS NEWSHOUR
• "What a beautiful and profoundly human book....I will keep The God Box in my heart for a long, long time."
  – LAURA SCHROFF, AUTHOR OF "THE INVISIBLE THREAD"

November 28, 2023
by Mary Lou Quinlan

Since The God Box book was published in the spring of 2012, so many readers have told me that they started their own God Boxes. I love hearing stories of children creating God Boxes and married couples joining their prayer and cares in a family box. (And my mother would be thrilled!)  A 'real' God box is a constant reminder that we are not in control and that letting go is the first step to finding comfort, hope and relief for life's worries. But did you know that many thousands have gone virtual with their God boxes? To help the many busy ...