Little Prayers for Ordinary Days
by Katie Bowser Hutson, Flo Paris Oakes, and Tish Harrison Warren
IVP Kids
ISBN 978-1-5140-0039-8
Reviewed by Clint Walker
What a wonderful little book! Designed for kids, but appropriate for persons of all ages, Little Prayers for Ordinary Days is a collection of prayers for children for moments during the day. Some of the moments are more daily, such as putting on clothes and going to school. Some of them may be more occasional, such as when a child loses something or chooses to look at the stars.
Through each prayer, and through use of this book as a whole, children will be taught that God is near, that God cares about our everyday life and concerns, and that God wants us to connect with, talk to, and believe in Him.
The prayers that are written are brief, easy to read, and down to earth. I could see my girls using this. Even more, taking some of their favorite prayers and attaching them to a mirror in their bedroom, or something like that.
The biggest challenge, in this day and age, will be to get the kids you know to open and read a book with prayers in it on a regular basis. A lot of kids would prefer and an app or something like it. I would have preferred the book to be more of a standard size, but that is only because I would like to copy pages and hang them up.
This would make a wonderful present for kids at significant moments in their lives and faith journeys.
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