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Long Days of Small Things: Motherhood as a Spiritual Discipline
by Catherine McNiel
Loved this take on motherhood as a gift, grace and spiritual discipline - stretching, growing, expanding us as women (and men) through simple, daily acts of service and love. Very affirming that although the traditional spiritual disciplines of quiet, solitude, meditation, prayer, fasting etc may be elusive at this stage of life, God is with us in all of the wonderful mess of raising children.
A note on format: if I was being picky, I think the beginning chapters of the book really struck me particularly. I wonder if perhaps it didn't need to be quite so long (it wasn't laborious, a light read, but I felt all of the essential points were made and then repeated...) but it is certainly a point worth drumming home; God is incarnational in nature and it was women (not men!) who were chosen to be involved in Jesus' birth and also the first to witness and proclaim his resurrection to new life- only the two most significant chapters of his life! What we do day-in and day-out is not insignificant, rather it is very close to God's own heart.
A note on format: if I was being picky, I think the beginning chapters of the book really struck me particularly. I wonder if perhaps it didn't need to be quite so long (it wasn't laborious, a light read, but I felt all of the essential points were made and then repeated...) but it is certainly a point worth drumming home; God is incarnational in nature and it was women (not men!) who were chosen to be involved in Jesus' birth and also the first to witness and proclaim his resurrection to new life- only the two most significant chapters of his life! What we do day-in and day-out is not insignificant, rather it is very close to God's own heart.