I
Love You to God and Back A Mother and Child Can Find Faith and Love Through
Bedtime Prayers
By
Amanda Lamb
Children are precious and this author has put to print a
collection of her six year old daughter’s prayers. Ms. Lamb also follows up with her own
thoughts. Through this book the reader
is able to follow this little six year old as she grows; as also do her thoughts
and ideas about God.
As a teacher I am often touched and admittedly amused by
what young children write. They write
from their heart with forthright honesty.
These prayers do just that. There
were times I grinned and times a wiped away a tear.
The Prayer Primer at the back of the book shows steps to
begin praying with your children and it also includes some prayer
starters. I feel this section is good
for parents of young children back lacking for a parent with older children. There are women who are parenting older foster
children or older grandchildren that are just being introduced to bedtime
prayers and this portion of the book could have used a section dealing with the
older child.
I must honestly say that there were times that I began to
gloss over the prayers because it became a bit ho-hum for me…something similar
to looking at too many of someone’s family movies or family pictures at one
sitting. Then I realized that I needed
to pay closer attention since I was reading this to write this review and
needed to go back and pay better attention.
While I enjoyed this book I did not find it to be
wonderful. Perhaps if I was related to
the author I would be more enchanted with it.
Basically it’s a nice book that shows the love a mother has for her daughter
and how that mother has so lovingly taught her daughter the importance and
power of faith and prayer.
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