Simple Prayers for Complicated Lives

By Jennifer M. Phillips

Book Overview

From booting up the computer or driving a car, to pregnancy, childbirth, and sending out a child in shared custody, this collection offers simple prayers for living into and through the joys, anxieties, and complications of modern life. Traditional prayers - on waking, table graces, and preparing for sleep - are included, too.

Phillips is equally at home with lament and thanksgiving; prayers for recovery from a robbery or divorce mingle with thanks for healing and the ordinary ticking of a clock.

Prayers include: A Child's Breakfast Prayer, Dashboard Prayer, At the Computer, For Watching Television, Writing Checks, Prayer for a Marriage Bed, Delivery Room Prayer, For a Couple Longing to Conceive, A Prayer for Imperfect Parents, Out of This Muddle, After a Robbery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596270292
• ISBN13: 9781596270299
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Seabury Books
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Simply Wonderful

Prayers for everything from the mundane to those things which complicate our lives beyond words. Simple offerings tht turn our fears and hopes over to the Holy One. There is a prayer while doing laundry as well as a prayer of thanksgiving for a newborn child. There is the prayer to be offered during the weariness of an ongoing illness and a prayer to be said while wrapping a gift. Something for all the simple and complicated moments of our lives. Jennifer Phillips is a gifted writer with a true heart for understanding the daily struggles of our lives. Her words help us move into the peace of God.

A Prayer For Every Occasion

Whether you've been asked to give an invocation at a special occasion or just need some help articulating your thoughts in prayer, this is the book for you. While many of the prayers are about expected topics such as sickness, loneliness and thanksgiving for the birth of a child, you'll also find prayers that celebrate the trivial, mundane and unexpected. Some of these include a laundry prayer, a blessing for one's house after an intrusion, an internet prayer, and a homework prayer. The book is divided pretty equally between laments and prayers of thanksgiving and each prayer is brief enough to be easily copied and taped to the bathroom mirror, dashboard or near the computer for easy access.