A welcome and distinctive addition to the popular Pocket Prayers series, this volume offers freshly written and traditional blessing prayers for many of life's ages and stages:for a new baby,for children leaving home,for journeys and pilgrimages,for a new home,for engagements and weddings,for the land and its fruitfulness,for the seasons of the year,for old age,for healing,for boats, tractors and buildings,for human work of all kind,for civic occasions,for churches and their contents,for iPads and other new creations.From the beginning of time people have sought God's blessing on their endeavours. Jan McFarlane explores this deep urge in today's world and has created may new blessing prayers for a wide range of needs.