Guide My Feet: Prayers and
Meditations for Our Children by
Marian Wright Edelman
Coming And Going
Here are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to
instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children at a
time when these ideas are threatened by commercialism and violence.
With warmth and conviction, Edleman shares his own prayers as well as
inspirational readings from others. Turn in this book for guidelines and
support--again and again.
Personal Review: Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for
Our Children by Marian Wright Edelman
I have no children, yet I seek to pray for the children of the world. Marian
Wright Edelman has helped me to do this, more, and better.

Her preface to "Guide My Feet" is worth the purchase price alone. The
mini-biography of how her family, faith and community supported her
struggles through the black/white segregation in America and how she
broke through to become a woman who has brought social reform to our
country is a notable portrait indeed. Her collection of prayers are poetic,
pensive and will penetrate through our hectic, occupied lives:
"Lord , let me not be so busy working to buy the things that my children
want that I cannot give them the time and attention and love they need."
Just before I picked up Edelman's book, I finished reading Eric Schlosser's
"Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" (Highly
Recommended - see my review). As Marian Edelman worries in every
fiber of her being, "about our many children who, lacking a sense of the
sacred or internal moral mooring are, trying to grow up in a society without
boundaries" and the "relentless cultural messages glamorizing violence,
sex, possessions, alcohol, and tobacco", Schlosser will, if you read the
books in tandem, show in "Fast Food Nation" that we all need to increase
our concern and prayers towards the omnipresence marketing efforts
directed daily at our children.
Yes, prayer works, but so does responsible parenting. These two books
should be read concurrently. As Schlosser notes "the typical American
child now spends about twenty-one (21) hours a week watching television -
roughly one and a half months of TV every year. About 25% of American
Children between the ages of two and five have a TV in their room".
Marian Edelman's prayer, "God help us to shut off television and radio and
computer and phone so that we can communicate with each other." is
timely indeed.
Every month 90% of American children between three and nine visit a
McDonald's. Each year fast food chains annually spend more than $3
billion on television advertising directed at children. A taste for fat
developed in childhood is difficult to lose as an adult, and obesity is
extremely difficult to cure. That said, and noting the above statistic, please
remember that over one-quarter of all American children are obese or very
overweight (African American children leading this group). Perhaps,
besides prayer, we should also use modified Biblical quotes to protect our
children; "McDonald's get
hence behind me".
The prayers of this book plead with, and petition God (as most prayers do)
in a raw, honest way that comes from the heart of a parent who
desperately loves her children. The wisdom and prayers found in this
book will affect you and hopefully infect you with the same raw honesty
needed to raise a child today. Highly recommended.
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