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Index: Pulling the Pieces into Prayer

* Betsy’s Prayer

* Daily Grace and Sabbath Prayer

* Healing Prayer

* Our Work is Never Done

* Solitary Shabbat Prayer
   

Bits and Pieces of Prayer

Making Prayers Your Own

Contact Betsy

Welcome to BetsyFuchs.com
and Betsy's Prayers (BetsysPrayers.com)

I am Betsy Fuchs and I welcome you to my website. The website features prayers that I have written which are included in my unpublished book Pulling the Pieces into Prayer: And Bringing their Blessings into a Jewish Life (or Any Life) and my smaller 30 page published book Bits and Pieces of Prayer.

These books tell of my experiences over a ten year period with writing prayers and making traditional prayers my own. Besides containing prayers I have written, the books also contains excerpts from my journals and personal reflections that indicate what was happening in my life at the time that I wrote the prayers. And they tell how writing prayers brought me back to Judaism, the religion of my birth.

To my astonishment, prayers and Judaism have become an important part of my life. And through my personal prayer practice and my participation in Shabbat morning services at Beth Emet The Free Synagogue in Evanston, Illinois, here is what I have come to believe:

It helps to get in the habit of praying to God. Otherwise who are you going thank for the gift of each new day? And who will you cry out to when no one else will listen? And what words will sustain you when you need help? And how else will you remember always that you must take part in tikkun olam (repair of the world)?

Prayers are not magic. They don’t always help or sustain or inspire. But the habit of prayer puts into place the possibility. And that is enough for me.

Writing the book, Pulling the Pieces into Prayer: And Bringing their Blessings into a Jewish Life (or Any Life), has been a pleasure and a joy. Publishing the book, on the other hand, is a lot of hard and challenging work. And it takes many months!

For the short term, in September 2007 I self-published Bits and Pieces of Prayer which contains excerpts from Pulling the Pieces into Prayer. Go to Bits andPieces of Prayer to find out more about this small book and to order a copy.

© copyright 2006, 2007 by Betsy Fuchs