Inhaltsangabe
Sometimes prayers flow easily, and people can talk to God as
naturally as they would to a dear friend. At other times, though
the words just won’t come, no matter how hard they try to
pray.
So what can Christians do when they can’t pray, or when they
need a prayer for a specific occasion and don’t know where
to start? They can turn to the prayers of other believers to be
carried into God’s presence.
Prayers for Life’s Ordinary and Extraordinary Moments
is a unique collection of prayers that give readers words to pray
on those occasions when they can’t find words of their own.
The honest, heartfelt prayers, written by staff members of The
Upper Room and the General Board of Discipleship, address
such categories as
• For the People We Love
• Birthdays and Milestones
• The Cry for Justice
• Loss and Grief
• In Uncertain Times
• Asking for Healing
• Facing Our Own and
Others’ Imperfections
• Spiritual Searching
• Gratitude for Ordinary
Miracles
“Being able to pray is a privilege and a gift,” Mary Lou Redding
writes. “This collection is a gift to us for the times we need
someone to help us say what we want to say to God.”
Through this book, readers will learn how to touch the heart of
God when they aren’t able to articulate their own prayers.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Mary Lou Redding is interested in many disciplines - art, literature, music, science, philosophy, religion, politics. She is a writer, a thinker, a feminist, a loving mother and grandmother, an outspoken and direct person. She loves to bake and cook, creating her own recipes. She designs and sews clothes, watches Star Trek in all its versions, roots for the Atlanta Braves, and plays word games at every opportunity. From hardy, hillbilly stock, Mary Lou is in the first generation of her family to be born outside Kentucky since her great- [x 20] grandfather George Gideon Ison came to Letcher County in the early 1700s. Her hillbilly heritage of fierce independence and hard work is sometimes evident in negative ways. She is one of seven children and has over 50 first cousins. Mary Lou's only child, an adult daughter, is the mother of her two nearly perfect granddaughters, Rosalie and Arianwyn. Spending time with them and with other younger members of her huge extended family brings Mary Lou great joy. Before becoming an editor and writer, Mary Lou taught basic and advanced prose writing and business communication on the college level. Teaching - both writing and the Bible - is one of her great loves. Mary Lou has a master of arts degree in rhetoric and writing and worked professionally as a writer and editor for many years, retiring as editorial director of The Upper Room magazine in 2012. Of all the writing and editing projects she has been part of, Mary Lou most treasures helping to create the Spiritual Formation Bible, published in 1999 by Zondervan and republished in 2007 by Upper Room Books as the Meeting God Bible. One of her major interests is the intersection of personality and spirituality, and she is certified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality-preference inventory. Mary Lou completed the Academy for Spiritual Formation, an intensive, two-year experiential and academic program in Christian spirituality.
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