A Stitch and a Prayer: A Memoir of Faith Amidst Warstar rating 3YervantJanuary 7, 2009This endearing little volume offers a glimpse into the experience of war through the eyes of a little girl. With a beautiful command of language, the author recounts her memories of World War II and how it weighed on her family. With great surprise she watched as her father picked up a crochet hook and began stitching a coverlet of rosettes, a discipline that he maintained until the war's end. It was only years later that she began to understand why he began this undertaking and how it helped him cope with a world he could not control. The author perhaps best summed this up in saying, "When hands and thoughts are occupied in the goodness of small and needful creation, the spirit rests that deep rest in which it can attend itself and be attended by the sacred." As much as I enjoyed this read, it bears mentioning that at 41 pages it was far too short to do justice to the story shared. It truly was but a glimpse- limpid and brilliant and fragrant- a fleeting window to a story that had far more to offer than was herein articulated.