At long last, girls: Starck's Motherhood Prayers for all Occasions are now available in a freestanding volume, $10 from Emmanuel Press. 76 little pages for you to hold in one hand so you can pray for your new baby while you sit up in the night with the old one. :) This is an essential for the pregnant lady personal library and a perfect addition to the next baby shower gift bag you assemble. It also deserves a place on your pastor's shelf and in your church library, and would be a really lovely gift for churches to offer expectant mothers. I reviewed the Motherhood Prayers a while ago . . . um . . . here.
It was my honor to write the Introduction for this new reprint, but thanks are primarily owed to Chaplain Michael Frese and his wife Janet for the work that went into its publication. THANKS!
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Thank you. I'm getting one. (Mostly because one of my favorite writers wrote the intro :)
Good work! :)
Several copies just arrived today, ordered by my pastor husband. He wants me to read my copy and let him know when it would be best to give a copy to mothers at church (he initially thought at the baby's baptism, but now it is obvious that more than half of the prayers are for 'women with child' and in labor). Fantastic intro :-)
Thanks, girls. :) Joy, I'd give this book to someone as soon as I knew she was pregnant. Despite the "all occasions," the prayers are really mostly for use during pregnancy. I also give the recipient a heads up that the prayers contain some old-timey ideas a care provider of any stripe probably wouldn't get behind (eg, if you trip up the stairs, your baby is almost certainly OK).
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