Our Share of Night, Our Share of Morning: Parenting As a Spiritual Journey - Hardcover

Alone with the crib, the clothes, and the car seat, you've acquired a shelf-full of books. They tell you what to feed your child, how to get your child to sleep, and even how to raise your child to be a responsible and ethical adult. Yet each day spent as a family brings new challenges, questions, and wonder at the task of parenting. Our Share of Night, Our Share of Morning, like parenting, is filled with everyday moments that evoke laughs, smiles, a lump in the throat - and eye-opening perspectives on life, love, and spirituality. At once wise, funny, lyrical, and down-to-earth, Nancy Fuchs explores the transformative spiritual adventure that parents experience while bringing up their children.
Through the lives of the many parents she interviews, Fuchs explores how children provide a crash course in love, grace, forgiveness, and mystery. Beautifully written, Our Share of Night, Our Share of Morning is about how parenting opens us up to a much experienced but little talked about spiritual journey; it is about elation and exhaustion, wonderment and wondering, and the discovery that parenting is a spiritual path that "raises" the souls of both parent and child in often unexpected ways.

Nancy Fuchs, Ph.D., is director of the religious studies program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia.