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Muddling Through Again: Prayers and Reflections for a Woman’s Journey
Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. -Philippians 4:6
Prayer is a beautiful gift from God. How blessed are humans to connect directly with God through daily prayer?
Lee Haugen Long embraced this blessing throughout her life. She wrote her prayers daily, an exercise that helped her stay focused on God and off her to-do list. When she didn't feel inspired to write her own prayers, she turned to prayer books for women. While Lee liked these prayer books, she noticed that many of them didn’t address her everyday life, the ups and downs of being a wife and mother with school-age children.
While journaling her daily prayers one morning, Lee found herself writing general prayers instead of prayers specific to her life. Over the course of many months, these prayers kept arriving in her daily writing. Lee realized they were a gift from God, a gift to share with you as this book of prayers for women.
MUDDLING THROUGH AGAIN is for any Christian woman who wants to meet God in the everyday. As you muddle through your day-to-day life, God is always with you, even during the monotony of the 9-5, the housework, the temper tantrums, the rainy days.
Learn to seek God in the mundane. Remember to thank God for the daily blessings of food on the table and a roof over your head.
If your daily prayers lack focus, reading through this prayer book will help you concentrate on your relationship with God.
If you don't connect with flowery or extravagant language, the simplicity and honesty of these prayers will speak straight to your heart.
MUDDLING THROUGH AGAIN includes prayers for women on the following
THANKSGIVING AND ADORATION
CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE
CHILDREN
CHRISTMAS
A CLOSER WALK
CRISIS
EVERYDAY
MARRIAGE
WEARINESS AND REBELLION
If MUDDLING THROUGH AGAIN leaves you wanting more, join the #MuddlingMovement at www.muddlingthroughagain.com
Prayer is a beautiful gift from God. How blessed are humans to connect directly with God through daily prayer?
Lee Haugen Long embraced this blessing throughout her life. She wrote her prayers daily, an exercise that helped her stay focused on God and off her to-do list. When she didn't feel inspired to write her own prayers, she turned to prayer books for women. While Lee liked these prayer books, she noticed that many of them didn’t address her everyday life, the ups and downs of being a wife and mother with school-age children.
While journaling her daily prayers one morning, Lee found herself writing general prayers instead of prayers specific to her life. Over the course of many months, these prayers kept arriving in her daily writing. Lee realized they were a gift from God, a gift to share with you as this book of prayers for women.
MUDDLING THROUGH AGAIN is for any Christian woman who wants to meet God in the everyday. As you muddle through your day-to-day life, God is always with you, even during the monotony of the 9-5, the housework, the temper tantrums, the rainy days.
Learn to seek God in the mundane. Remember to thank God for the daily blessings of food on the table and a roof over your head.
If your daily prayers lack focus, reading through this prayer book will help you concentrate on your relationship with God.
If you don't connect with flowery or extravagant language, the simplicity and honesty of these prayers will speak straight to your heart.
MUDDLING THROUGH AGAIN includes prayers for women on the following
THANKSGIVING AND ADORATION
CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE
CHILDREN
CHRISTMAS
A CLOSER WALK
CRISIS
EVERYDAY
MARRIAGE
WEARINESS AND REBELLION
If MUDDLING THROUGH AGAIN leaves you wanting more, join the #MuddlingMovement at www.muddlingthroughagain.com
53 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2000
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October 12, 2017
Well, I'm the editor of this book, and my mother was the author, so I'm a bit biased.
With complete honesty, however, I can say that the section on crisis (which my mother wrote surrounding my grandfather's death) has helped me to grieve her these past two years. It's oddly comforting to know that we have shared the same pain upon losing a parent.
With complete honesty, however, I can say that the section on crisis (which my mother wrote surrounding my grandfather's death) has helped me to grieve her these past two years. It's oddly comforting to know that we have shared the same pain upon losing a parent.
November 3, 2017
I have to be honest here, I'm not so sure I like the format of this book of prayers. I appreciate how the prayers are organized into sections (Thanksgiving, confession, children etc), but within those sections, there is not much separating the prayers. Each prayer does not have a greeting or a salutation like I usually have in my prayers. That is absolutely just a personal preference, of course. But for me it made the reading of the prayers a little difficult.
With that being said, I realize I have never read a book of prayers. I usually use devotional books including scripture, a lesson and a prayer at the end. I like that better personally. But I know a book like this has a purpose. And there are certainly pros to having the prayers in each category sort of run together. I can see picking up the book and turning to a certain section of the book and just reading the section completely when I need some guidance in that area of my prayer life. Each section isn't that long.
Anyway, with all that said, I still really enjoyed the book. I identified with a lot of these prayers,aAnd reading them reminded me that nothing is too small for God. Even when we don't feel like praying or we don't have much to say, we should still simply talk to Him. As I read Lee's prayers, the thought that we should turn everything over to God wa reinforced over and over. Sometimes I think that struggles I have within my own head are things I need to work on by myself, rather than asking God to renew my spirit.
Also, Lee's confession session was very convicting. She prayed about how she makes excuses rather than using her gifts to work in God's kingdom. Oh man. Also, she talked a lot about justification. She justifies her sins, just like I do!
Even the Christmas prayers moved me.
So yes I recommend this book of prayers to any Christian woman. It's a good reminder of the power of prayer and simply living a prayer-filled life even when your prayers feel "generic." And as I mentioned before, I am certainly glad to have this book on my kindle with access to it from the kindle app on my phone so I can pick it up whenever I'm feeling uninspired in my prayer life!
With that being said, I realize I have never read a book of prayers. I usually use devotional books including scripture, a lesson and a prayer at the end. I like that better personally. But I know a book like this has a purpose. And there are certainly pros to having the prayers in each category sort of run together. I can see picking up the book and turning to a certain section of the book and just reading the section completely when I need some guidance in that area of my prayer life. Each section isn't that long.
Anyway, with all that said, I still really enjoyed the book. I identified with a lot of these prayers,aAnd reading them reminded me that nothing is too small for God. Even when we don't feel like praying or we don't have much to say, we should still simply talk to Him. As I read Lee's prayers, the thought that we should turn everything over to God wa reinforced over and over. Sometimes I think that struggles I have within my own head are things I need to work on by myself, rather than asking God to renew my spirit.
Also, Lee's confession session was very convicting. She prayed about how she makes excuses rather than using her gifts to work in God's kingdom. Oh man. Also, she talked a lot about justification. She justifies her sins, just like I do!
Even the Christmas prayers moved me.
So yes I recommend this book of prayers to any Christian woman. It's a good reminder of the power of prayer and simply living a prayer-filled life even when your prayers feel "generic." And as I mentioned before, I am certainly glad to have this book on my kindle with access to it from the kindle app on my phone so I can pick it up whenever I'm feeling uninspired in my prayer life!
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