Honoring Motherhood: Prayers, Ceremonies & Blessings

by Lynn L. Caruso

Book Overview

Blessings, prayers, anecdotes and meditations from many faith traditions about the sacred undertaking that is motherhood. These words of hope and healing, pain and promise are for all mothers-traditional, single, adoptive, foster, step and bereaved.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594732396
• ISBN13: 9781594732393
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Lovely book for mothers in all stages of life

This book is the perfect gift for any mother. It contains beautiful poetry that will touch your heart. I read it straight through and did not want to put it down, although it is one of those books you can pick up anytime and open anywhere to read a passage. For new mothers it would be a lifetime companion.

Moments of Peace

This book contains beautiful poems, stories, and prayers from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and other traditions. Each section only takes a moment to read and can be read out of order. Open the book to a random page, read an uplifting passage, then go back to real life, refreshed and invigorated.

Appreciation for Mothers of All Ages

I thought I was buying this book for my daughter for Mother's Day, but couldn't put it down. Then I ordered one for myself and friends who were becoming grandmothers and mothers for the first or multiple times. From chapter to chapter it drew me into my own lineage---giving me insights and recalling my memories of my grandmother, my mother, my mothering years, and my current life of grandmothering. Each page inspires and teaches though the fullness of it's unfamiliar prayersand excellent quotations, its concise seasonal stories and sacred readings about mothering from all religious standpoints. This is not a trite, usual collection of writings, but rather a beautifully arranged and worded compendium of the full range of women's emotions as they contemplate becoming mothers,as they experience birth or adoption, as they commiserate when problems or losses occur, as they struggle as single parents, as they empty their nest, as they grandparent and then look back upon the pains and joys of motherhood. No subject is omitted: miscarriage, children with addictions, stepparenting, adoption. It's really a book for any season of a woman's life and I wish everyone could read it.