Ordinary Blessings, Meta Herrick Carlson
Ordinary Blessings, Meta Herrick Carlson
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Ordinary Blessings
Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Everyday Life

Author: Meta Herrick Carlson

Narrator: Joana Garcia

Unabridged: 1 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/10/2021

Synopsis

The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. This collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offers a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days. Listen to this book when the spirit moves you or when the spirit feels distant—the words will be here to inspire, calm, and encourage you either way.

From gifted poet and empathetic pastor Meta Herrick Carlson, Ordinary Blessings collects blessings for loving yourself, enduring hard things, authenticity, living with others, and the rhythms of each day. Pause, take a deep breath, and press "play" to find that you've been standing on holy ground all along.

About Meta Herrick Carlson

Meta Herrick Carlson is a pastor and writer passionate about building connections and courage in liminal spaces. Her theology has been influenced by work with recovery communities and survivors of sexual violence. Meta serves Bethlehem Lutheran Church Twin Cities as the campus pastor and redeveloper at the Minnetonka campus. She's a cocreator of the podcast Alter Guild and author of Ordinary Blessings: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Everyday Life. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three loud, sticky kids.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Audrey on December 31, 2022

What a joy of a book. So much here to savor but on New Year's Eve Saturday I found my tired, sad, post call and on call self curled up in a chair reading all I hadn't the prior day. Some needed slow repeat reading as now was the time for them. This will be one to keep handy and come back to regularl......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 03, 2022

This is such a lovely book of blessings! I am excited to return to these words again and again.......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on February 12, 2020

Meta Carlson’s Ordinary Blessings gives voice to the everyday stuff of life that needs to be honored - from the mundane to the difficult. I found myself nodding along, marking page after page to return to when life calls for sacred acknowledgment. This book is a gift of actionable love to the world.......more

Goodreads review by Melinda on April 10, 2020

An excellent devotional resource with prayers that I have found meaningful even during COVID-19. She writes with a raw, real, grounded spirituality, speaking plainly to the pain we know, to the joy that sometimes is buried deep but we cling to the hope of drawing it out. The prayer "For Space" was e......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on March 09, 2020

I took my time with this book. With the lovely words, blessings and prayers Carlson has curated within three pages. Some of them stuck me exactly where I am and I know others will be so useful for my pastoral ministry. I am grateful to have this resource on my shelves.......more

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