Prayers from the Heart

A short collection of prayers written by Richard J. Foster, published by HarperSanFrancisco in 1994 (120 pages in the first edition). The prayers are meant to be prayed in ordinary life, including work, parenting, housework and paying the bills, as well as at particular events and turning points. Renovaré, the ministry Foster founded, describes it as his most personal book and arranges its account of the contents in the three movements Foster had used two years earlier in Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home (1992): inward, toward the transformation of the heart; upward, toward intimacy with God; and outward, toward the care of others. Where Prayer teaches about the forms of prayer, this book offers prayers themselves.