How can we foster spiritual growth in
ourselves as parents?
A perfect gift for the new parent. A
helpful guide for anyone seeking to re-envision family life. Parenting as a Spiritual Journey explores the transformative spiritual adventure
that all parents can experience while bringing up their
children.
Parenting as a Spiritual Journey shows, by looking at a typical
day’s routine, how even the seemingly insignificant
moments in a day with your child can be full of spiritual
meaning. From waking up in the morning to bedtime at night,
there are so many opportunities for parent and child to connect
in a spiritual way. Fuchs-Kreimer helps us see those
possibilities, revealing how parents can come to recognize,
understand and appreciate the joys, insecurities, wonder and
awe that can contribute to the spiritual fulfillment of raising
children.
Fuchs-Kreimer’s interviews with over
one hundred parents, plus her own experiences as a mother of
two, illuminate the journey we take every day in raising our
children. Included are rituals, prayers, and inspiring passages
from sacred Jewish texts—as well as from other religious
traditions—that are woven throughout this wise, funny and
lyrical book.
“I couldn’t put it down. I
read it while I was nursing, praying, and at two in the morning
when the baby was asleep. Now, I’m going to reread it
from the beginning.”
—from a reader in Kensington,
Maryland
“A wondrously touching book; it
connects heaven and earth as well as anything I’ve read
in years!”
—Rabbi
Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
“Presents the entire enterprise of
parenting as sacred space and the natural context for direct
spiritual experience. . . . This is really relevant
spirituality.”
—Sylvia
Boorstein, author of It’s Easier Than You Think and mother of four
“With the compassionate love of a
mother, the sensitive soul of a poet, and the deep wisdom of a
sage, Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer teaches us about the sacred task of
parenting. This book will make you laugh and weep, ponder and
act, and, most of all, it will help make you a better
parent.”
—Wayne
Dosick, author of Golden Rules
“[This] ecumenical book is equally
suited for any open-minded parent, from believer to agnostic,
Jewish or gentile.... Give this to a friend and to
yourself.”
—The
Jerusalem Report
