This is a book of prayers for women who want to pray but can't. Many women feel the urge to pray-when a child is sick, when a loved one is dying, when relationships sour, in the presence of beauty. Our impulse is to say "Oh God, help " or "Oh God, thank you." But as soon as we think or say the word God, many of us freeze, because we do not believe in a god who intervenes in our lives. We may well believe that there is a spiritual dimension or that life is imbued with the sacred. We may believe in a timeless, mysterious grace that envelops us all. Yet the very word God and the concept of...