This Little Prayer of Mine
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Whenever I feel all mixed up,
unsure of what to do,
please show me what the right path is
and help me follow you.-This Little Prayer of Mine
I like the words, my 2-year-old daughter loves the pictures. Just how a children’s story book should be.
But This Little Prayer of Mine is more than just a picture book. It is a child’s model of how to pray. Asking God for help to face our fears, to choose what’s right, and forgiveness when we haven’t. Thanking God specifically for every blessing from ice cream to friends. On pages splashed with bright colors and pictures of puppies and kitties and stars and rainbows.
This Little Prayer of Mine, written by Anthony DeStefano and illustrated by Mark Elliott, will be a delightful addition to any child’s library. Read on to find out how to win a copy for a child you know in our first giveaway here at the Little Pink House!
- To enter the drawing for a copy of This Little Prayer of Mine, comment on this post to tell us who taught you how to pray.
- For additional chances to win, please blog and/or Tweet about this giveaway. Be sure to place each blog or Tweet URL in a separate comment.
- Don’t forget to include your name and email address in the space provided on the comment form (your email address will not be published, but I need a way to contact you if you win!).
- This drawing open to readers with U.S. mailing addresses only, please.
- Drawing ends at midnight, Sunday, April 11, 2010.
- Winner will be chosen randomly, notified by email, and announced in this post.
- Thanks to the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for providing this book for review and giveaway.
- Congratulations to Elizabeth for winning a copy of This Little Prayer of Mine!
But most of all I’m grateful
for your love that never ends.-This Little Prayer of Mine
The first prayer I recall praying was a little rhyme I learned at VBS while staying with my great-grandma one year-
“Thank You for the world so sweet.
Thank You for the food we eat.
Thank You for the birds that sing.
Thank You, Lord, for everything! Amen”
A little later my mom was saved and she taught us to pray before bed. I still remember kneeling next to my little brother by my bed and asking God’s protection over “Mommy and Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa, Amanda and Bryan, and all our good friends”. 🙂
Thanks for inspiring such lovely memories. This book sounds wonderful and if I don’t win it, it definitely sounds like one I will be looking for! 🙂
I think it was the example of my parents during family worship who encouraged me to pray, and from there, growing up, reading my own little bible, the desire and the need to pray sprouted into my own real prayers.This book sounds precious! Shall have to find it, one way or the other. 🙂
My parents taught me how to pray and now I’m teaching my one and a half year old son. We started around 6 months and now he knows how to hold his hands for the different hand positions we use for different prayers. This book looks neat! Thanks for the review and the chance to win it.
My Dad taught my sister and me to pray. It was back when we were attending our little log church that had no Sunday School, and Dad led us in our own little Sunday School every week before church. I still remember being very uncertain about it all, and always praying that my grandparents would be saved. (Convicting, now, since they still aren’t.)
My grandmother on the other side has a neat story. She didn’t grow up in a Christian home, but was invited to Sunday School when she was about 11. She remembers her teacher, Hannah Wakely, inviting all the girls in her class over on Monday nights when her husband had an engagement keeping him from home. Grandma says that they all drank tea and had nice things to eat and Hannah taught them how to pray. Grandma was saved during those years, and later when she met Grandpa, she found out that Hannah Wakely was his second cousin!
This looks like a great book for little ones! I was just talking with my husband about how I can incorporate more of a focus on God during the day for my little ones!
I don’t remember who taught me how to pray, but I think my first memories of praying was at Sunday School. I remember some of my S.S. teachers from way back explaining the kind of things we should pray about.
My parents taught me to pray! 🙂 And now, we’re teaching our little ones.
I don’t remember specific instructions on learning how to pray, but seeing/hearing my parents pray has shaped how I pray today. It’s interesting to see how differently my husband and I pray (I was raised in a Christian home and he wasn’t, so he learned how to pray from our church).
Congratulations, Elizabeth–you won the drawing!
Well, I don’t remember, but I’m sure my parents taught me to pray, during family devotions and such :-). I would love to win this for my son!