Mitten Strings for God
Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry
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3.8 • 19 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Through stories and suggestions, Katrina Kenison shares her insights into how to celebrate life's quiet moments, softly reminding busy mothers to pause and remember the deep sense of well-being comes from a listening ear, an open heart, and a quiet little space carved out of time.
Mothers are pulled in a million different directions while trying to give their kids fulfilling, productive, joyful childhoods.
They mistake activity for happiness, and fill their kids' heads with information when they ought to be feeding their souls instead.
This is a book for mothers who yearn to find a balance in their own and their children's lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This heartfelt collection of essays will strike a chord with any mother whose response to the "arrythmic" pace of modern life is a yearning to "shut the door, stop the noise, and tune in to our own inner lives." Drawing on hard-won insights from her own struggle to achieve balance (she gave up a successful career in book publishing to work from home and raise her two young sons) and to infuse her family's days with meaning, Kenison's richly anecdotal musings on such diverse topics as "peace," "simplicity," "play," "Sabbath" and "discipline" resonate with honesty and wisdom. Though this is not a religious book in the traditional sense, Kenison's contemplations are suffused with a spirituality that thrives on connecting with others and with nature and finding the sacred in the everyday. Rendering an intimate portrait of family life with grace and a lively sense of humor, Kenison, who for the past 10 years has edited The Best American Short Stories, is most impassioned and enlightening when she shares "moments in which we were bathed in grace, moments when we were astonished by the simple joy of our togetherness." Though each essay ends with a pat homily, some of which are jarringly treacly ("Someplace deep within me, I carry every story I have ever heard, every story I have ever lived, every story I will ever need"), readers will be left feeling refreshed and encouraged by the generosity of spirit that prompted these thoughtful reflections. FYI: For more on Mitten Strings for God, see Book News, Mar. 20.
Customer Reviews
Great Book!
When this book first came out, I was a mom of three and was in the throes of "little ones". Reading this book was sort of like having someone sitting in my living room and telling about my life. I've been lamenting losing this book during Hurricane Ike when my house flooded. I lost a lot of stuff but I've missed this old, dogeared, marked up and careworn book most. I recommended this book to countless friends and even used it for a "textbook" for a parenting group. I'm in the middle of her second book about teenagers and love it. I now have a seven year old boy as well as teens and one early 20's and I'm so happy to see it here because I NEED it!