BEGINNER'S GRACE Bringing Prayer to Life

The tone of this book, by the author of HERE IF YOU NEED ME, is conversational and far from preachy. Narrator Susan Ericksen exactly matches it, offering a warm, breezy reading that engages listeners. The author uses humor often, and the listener can almost hear Ericksen smiling as she reads those passages. Kate Braestrup, a Unitarian Universalist minister, is chaplain to the Maine Warden Service and draws on her professional as well as personal experiences to illustrate her points. She explores a variety of situations and offers examples of appropriate prayers. Overall, though, the book is more of an invitation to prayer than a how-to. She includes numerous examples of prayers to draw from, offering listeners prayers for situations in their own lives, such as grace and thankfulness, grief and loss, and pleas for assistance. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2011]