For Everything A Season: 75 Blessings for Daily Life - Softcover

Family, The Nilsen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962714712 ISBN 13: 9780962714719

Publisher: Zion Publishing (IA), 1999

Synopsis

This book is a compilation of 75 Christian ritual blessings that help deepen and make sacred ordinary and out of the ordinary life moments. It offers three simple blessings for the seasons of the day; thirteen for the seasons of the year (holidays we celebrate from New Year's Eve to Thanksgiving); twenty-five blessings for seasons of our lives--event such as getting a driver's license, leaving home, getting a pet; seventeen blessings for seasons of our relationships; eleven for seasons of the Christian life; and six for the seasons of the church year.

Each ritual has a welcome, prayer, time for reflection, suggested ritual action such as lighting a candle or passing a blessing cup, and a closing blessing. They can be done by families or other groups or by someone alone.

These accessible blessings help to transform ordinary moments in time and space into holy moments of timeless grace.

About this title

About the Author:

The Nilsen Family is composed of two parents (Roy C. and Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen) and their five adult children (Per, Kai, Linnea Nilsen Capshaw, Solveig Nilsen-Goodin, and Erika Nilsen). All family members are involved in church related professions, including five ordained clergy. It is a family who, over the years and through the struggles and joy common to all families, discovered the power of ritual to draw them closer to God and to each other.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zion Publishing (IA)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0962714712
• ISBN 13: 9780962714719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96