| Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children Contributor(s): Edelman, Marian Wright (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060958197 ISBN-13: 9780060958190 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2000 Annotation: In this anthology of personal prayers and meditations, the author of the bestselling "The Measure of Our Success" offers encouragement and guidance to anyone striving to instill the values of faith, integrity, and service in today's children. Newly repackaged. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Devotional - Religion | Prayerbooks - General - Religion | Christian Living - General |
| Dewey: 242.645 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.3" W x 8.01" (0.40 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Christian - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Edelman blends gospel passages with her own personal prayers, and her reverence for the young brings a depth to this book that goes well beyond the words. --Los Angeles Times A wonderfully warm, poignant, and truly touching and attractive anthology. --Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu Here are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children at a time when these ideals are threatened by commercialism and violence. With warmth and conviction, Marian Wright Edelman shares her own prayers as well as inspirational readings from others. Turn to this book for guidelines and support--again and again. |
Contributor Bio(s): Edelman, Marian Wright: - Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C., and have three children and four grandchildren. |