Every Season Sacred: Reflections, Prayers, and Invitations to Nourish Your Soul and Nurture Your Family throughout the Year
Ebook
What does it look like to live a flourishing, messy, wonderful life together?
As parents, we’re tasked with nurturing and guiding our children, even as we navigate our own wonderings about faith. In the overwhelm and constant demands of life, is it possible to tend to our own souls and to our family’s flourishing?
With tender curiosity and contemplative wisdom, Every Season Sacred is a weekly invitation to grow spiritually alongside our children. Blending thoughtful musings and practical resources, author Kayla Craig meets parents right where they are, offering
- honest and hopeful reflections for every season of the parenting journey;
- encouragement to parent with intention and imagination, presence and purpose; and
- open-ended discussion prompts and prayers to explore and practice as a family.
Every Season Sacred is an invitation to ask big questions, embrace faithful rhythms, and experience God’s mysterious, loving presence together. You don’t have to have all the answers—and if we’re honest, many answers aren’t ours to have. This is the beauty of faith.
As you parent your children and explore your questions together, may God reveal sacred moments to you—in each season of your life.
There is a time for everything, and Kayla Craig has managed to weave grace into all of it. Every Season Sacred is a perfect blend of storytelling and liturgy, inviting us to slow down, stay present, and reorient our eyes to the love of God, even in the midst of a distracted, busy world. Filled with charming stories and poetic prayers, this book is a must-read for the whole family. A treasure to read and reread, all year round.
In Every Season Sacred, Kayla Craig does not offer us something new but something ancient—inviting us to embrace the rhythms of the created world as gifts that are meant to orient us toward a life rooted in the love of God. For those of us who live crammed and packed lives, wondering how we can ever implement healthy spiritual rhythms into already overflowing schedules, Every Season Sacred is an indispensable resource. Instead of asking us to fill our lives with more, Craig gently invites us to embrace what’s already been given—the unforced rhythms of grace.
Kayla has written the book I have been in search of. Her words invite us into a space of exhale in a way that is accessible even for a mom like me. A space for a sometimes weary, sometimes jubilant, always deeply grateful mother to turn to, in every season. I know I will be dipping into this book often for many years to come, likely for the rest of my life. I hope it is welcomed into the homes of every family.
I’ve been informed and inspired for years by Abraham Kuyper’s sentiment “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’” It’s beautiful as a sentiment but too easily stays in the realm of thought. What Kayla Craig does with this book (and so much of her work) is to make that sentiment a practiced and practicable reality. Every Season Sacred sets me up to more fully know the life-giving presence of God, inch by inch and moment by moment. What a gift.
Kayla Craig gives a spiritual shorthand to grownups who long to have more meaningful, divine connection within their family’s day-to-day but can barely fit it in among jerseys to wash, paperwork to sign, meals to prepare, and all the other detritus that seems to fill our days. Flexible, poignant, and (best of all) practical, Every Season Sacred reminds us that Holy Spirit is working in and through our families, and it invites us to join in on that holy and nurturing work.
I’ve so often prayed Kayla Craig’s words over my life, family, home, and community that the books have become dog-eared companions by now. Her liturgies have created such a path for so many of us who have found the old ways of prayer unnavigable for now. In this new book of prayers and blessings, she gives us language for the nuance, delight, tragedy, and beauty of being alive right now.
Every Season Sacred is the prayer collection every family needs—for the kitchen counter, the dinner table, or the bedroom nightstand. At turns tender and funny, thoughtful and profound, this practical guide makes the seasons of the church year accessible for today’s families, with prayers for all ages, relatable reflections, and engaging questions for faith conversations. Kayla Craig’s heart shines through these encouraging prayers, gathering a whole year’s worth of ways to turn to God in everyday moments. As a mother, a theologian, and a writer, Kayla is a wise and gentle guide through the changing rhythms of family life and the countless prayers that rise to our lips. Every Season Sacred draws from real-life stories and diverse voices to offer an enduring gift for parents, children, and communities of faith.
Kayla sees our everyday as the very place we meet God, and in this book, she shares with us how we might too. But the best part is that she’s offering us this lens not for ourselves alone but for the children we’re raising—not just with her stories but with questions and prayers we can share together in our homes. It’s a gift for a child to learn to find God near in all things as their home practices rhythms of grace, and Every Season Sacred will help tremendously.
Through every season of life, I’ve found liturgy a grounding force to remind me of the one thing that never changes, no matter the changing nature of my circumstances. Kayla has the unique ability to capture these moments—the great and the mundane—and give perspective and words to the celebrations and the memorializations. If your heart needs words, you will find them in Every Season Sacred.
What a gift this book is to the world. Kayla’s poetic and divinely inspired devotionals will no doubt impact and empower individuals and families. I am thrilled her words will grace the kitchen counters, bedside tables, and hearts of thousands. We need her grace-filled hope, prayers, and encouragement in every season.
The journey of parenting can be both achingly hard and exquisitely beautiful. In her newest offering, Kayla Craig compassionately takes us by the hand and invites us to remember that the Creator of the universe walks with us through each and every season. With stunning prose, heartfelt prayers, and deeply rooted contemplative rhythms, Every Season Sacred is an invaluable resource for families. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
- Title: Every Season Sacred: Reflections, Prayers, and Invitations to Nourish Your Soul and Nurture Your Family throughout the Year
- Author: Kayla Craig
- Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781496477132, 9781496477118, 1496477111, 1496477138
- Resource ID: LLS:9781496477132
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-10T09:43:42Z