Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night: A Morning and
Evening Prayer Book by Jeanie & David Gushee
A book like this is, of course, only as useful as you make
it. After a short introduction and
calendar of movable holy days, Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours is the Night
contains a daily prayer for each morning and evening of the year. They are taken from every century, as well as
many countries and denominations. You
are warned these prayers are not to replace your personal daily conversations
with God but as a ‘springboard’ to deepen and start them each day. I really enjoy the care that was taken to
represent different traditions and wording in the prayers. They are also short so not cumbersome.
The book is a nice hard cover and rather large, which can be
a problem if you do your morning and evening devotions in different
places. This one might actually be
better in digital form as most people care their ‘device’ around with them more
than a book.
Overall I recommend this book, especially for people drawn
to liturgy and community and the church universal, both as a devotion took as
well as to learn about those things; as well as for people who want to freshen
up their prayer life. Of course the
discipline of reading it twice a day is a great reminder that-Yours Is the Day,
Lord, Yours is the Night.
(I got this book for free from Thomas Nelson for agreeing to
review it on my blog. Check out
Booksneeze.com)
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