Simple Prayers for Complicated Lives

by Jennifer Phillips

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596270299
Publisher:	Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/2006
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• A Child's Breakfast Prayer
• Dashboard Prayer
• At the Computer
• A Prayer for Imperfect Parents
• Writing Checks
• Out of This Muddle

Editorial Reviews

Jennifer Phillips is an Episcopal priest, published poet, liturgist, and hospital chaplain. She is the vicar of St. Augustine's Church on the University of Rhode Island campus in Kingston, and the author of two books and a column for Episcopal Life. Her prayers appear in supplemental liturgical materials for the Episcopal Church. She lives in Kingston, Rhode Island.

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