This paperback by Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, a rabbi and mother of two, is a helpful guidebook for those seeking to re-envision family life. Using illustrations from her own experience and those of more than 100 other parents, Fuchs-Kreimer shows how raising children is "an intensive seminar on spirituality." The book is structured around an ordinary day with commentary on how love, grace, forgiveness, and healing show up in such activities as baths, story time, dinner, and watching the news. A wise mother told Robert Coles, "Children are souls of God, put here to teach us something while we're trying to teach them something."
The spiritual journey of parenting, according to Fuchs-Kreimer, is filled with rituals, prayers, and moments of wonder that testify to the presence of God in everyday life and to the home as a holy place where miracles abound.
